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I want to add some links into "External links" section of some wikipedia pages, so I write an application using mediawiki api with "action=edit" to do this.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php)

Do I have permission to do this? If yes, could you please tell me how to update this section using mediawiki api and how to test this api? Because I cannot post a request to update an existing wikipedia page.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Kevin

Wikipedia also has the test.wikipedia and the test2.wikipedia domains, which are for this exact purpose.

Hi,

I can get the content of "External links", the content is the string as below

==External links==
*[http://tellurideskiresort.com/ Telluride Ski Resort]
*[http://www.coloradoskihistory.com/areahistory/telluride.html ColoradoSkiHistory.com - Telluride Ski Area]
*[http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=81435 Telluride Weather Forecast - WeatherUnderground.com]
*[http://www.visittelluride.com/ Telluride Tourism Board Official Site]
*[http://www.3dskimaps.com/index.php?path=telluride 3dSkiMap of Telluride Ski Resort]

[[Category:Ski areas and resorts in Colorado]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in San Miguel County, Colorado]]
[[Category:Visitor attractions in San Miguel County, Colorado]]

And then I using a method to update this string to

==External links==
*[http://www.mydomain.com/ My website]
*[http://tellurideskiresort.com/ Telluride Ski Resort]
*[http://www.coloradoskihistory.com/areahistory/telluride.html ColoradoSkiHistory.com - Telluride Ski Area]
*[http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=81435 Telluride Weather Forecast - WeatherUnderground.com]
*[http://www.visittelluride.com/ Telluride Tourism Board Official Site]
*[http://www.3dskimaps.com/index.php?path=telluride 3dSkiMap of Telluride Ski Resort]

[[Category:Ski areas and resorts in Colorado]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in San Miguel County, Colorado]]
[[Category:Visitor attractions in San Miguel County, Colorado]]

And then I call this api "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" to post with the json

{
	"action":"edit",
	"contentformat":"text/x-wiki",
	"token":"8ecd52629cc8a27469fa65f9b8ecc0b2580900bb%2B%5C",
	"title":"Telluride_Ski_Resort",
	"section":"17",
	"text":"==External links==\n*[http://www.mydomain.com/ My website]\r\n*[http://tellurideskiresort.com/ Telluride Ski Resort]\n*[http://www.coloradoskihistory.com/areahistory/telluride.html ColoradoSkiHistory.com - Telluride Ski Area]\n*[http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=81435 Telluride Weather Forecast - WeatherUnderground.com]\n*[http://www.visittelluride.com/ Telluride Tourism Board Official Site]\n*[http://www.3dskimaps.com/index.php?path=telluride 3dSkiMap of Telluride Ski Resort]\n\n[[Category:Ski areas and resorts in Colorado]]\n[[Category:Buildings and structures in San Miguel County, Colorado]]\n[[Category:Visitor attractions in San Miguel County, Colorado]]",
	"format":"json",
	"assert":"user"
}

Is it correct? Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Kevin

I believe the contenttype should reflect the way you are presenting the POST request, so it should be application/x-www-form-urlencoded according to API:Edit. I never got it working with contenttype set to json, so I can't offer any insight into that.

If I use application/x-www-form-urlencoded, I cannot post a long and complicated string in "text" parameter

To be clear, posting JSON to the API will not work - you need to post a form basically with the values, and you should be able to post as long of a string as you want in the text parameter.

Additionally, if you want to run a script on the English Wikipedia, you need to have it approved first. You should read their guidelines and policies about bots first.

Thanks Legoktm