WikimediaAPI

This is the class to manage all the API request.

Constructor

WikimediaAPI(string Site, string User, string Password)

• Site Mediawiki site (ex. https://it.wikipedia.org or https://www.wikidata.org etc.)
• User Login user
• Password Login password

Example
WikimediaAPI WD = new WikimediaAPI("https://www.wikidata.org", "User", "Password");

Load

string LoadWD(string Entities, LoadTypeWD Type = LoadTypeWD.All)

• Entities String with entity id separated by | (ex. Q45|P38|Q60)
• Type What retrieve (ex. only label or description or all
• return JSON string of entities

This function use API wbgetentities&format=json&redirects=yes.

string LoadWD(string Site, string Pages, LoadTypeWD Type = LoadTypeWD.All)

• Site Wikimedia site (ex. itwiki or itwikiquote)
• Pages String with page title separated by | (ex. London|Berlin)
• Type What retrieve (ex. only label or description or all)
• return JSON string of entities

This function use API wbgetentities&format=json&redirects=yes.

string LoadWP(string Pages)

• PagesString with page title separated by | (ex. London|Berlin)
• return JSON string of the pages.

This function use API wbgetentities&format=json&redirects=yes.

Edit

string EditEntity(string id, Dictionary<string, string> links, Dictionary<string, string> labels, Dictionary<string, string> descriptions, Dictionary<string, List<string>> aliases, List<Claim> claims, string summary)

• id entity id (ex. Q564), empty string to create a new entity.
• links Dictionary with sitelinks
• labels Dictionary with labels
• descriptions Dictionary with descriptions
• aliases Dictionary with aliases
• claims List of claims
• summary Comment of the edit, empty string to auto description

This function use API wbeditentity.

string SetBadge(string Item, string Sitelink, string Badge)

• Itementity id (ex. Q564)
• SitelinkSitelink where to add the badge (ex. itwiki)
• BadgeItem of the badge, empty string to delete badge

This function use API wbsetsitelink.

string SavePage(string Page, string Text, string Summary)

• PageTitle of the page
• Textext to be saved
• Summary Comment of the edit

This function use API edit. Creates a new page if doesn't exist.