How do I link Wikipedia to Wikidata?
From a Wikipedia page, you can go to the link “Wikidata item”, using “Tools” in the side panel (in the left), to see and edit it. Also in Tools, there is another link to “page information”, where is “Wikidata item ID”, that contains the QID (for example: Q171 or “None”).
How do I get content from Wikipedia API?
There are three main methods for retrieving page content via the API:
- Get the contents of a page using the Revisions API (as wikitext).
- Get the contents of a page using the Parse API (as HTML or wikitext).
- Get plain text or limited HTML extracts of a page using the API of the TextExtracts extension.
What are the parameters of the Wikidata Query Service?
There are two special parameters, api and endpoint, which are always required and identify the endpoint host (wiki) and the specific API used. The API endpoints are pre-defined in configuration, see below. On the Wikidata Query Service, all Wikimedia sites are allowed (all Wikipedia language editions, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata itself, etc.).
How to set page size in Wikidata Query Service?
You can set the page size by using service-specific limit parameters, but the service will use continuation to fetch the following pages. This can be controlled by the wikibase:limit parameter, which will limit total number of rows fetched in one API request: bd:serviceParam wikibase:limit 50 .
What does the API do for Wikidata client?
The API is doing language fallback for you if possible. (Of course you can help by contributing missing statements and translations to Wikidata .) The extensions Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client power Wikidata, together with related components.
How to get an entity ID in Wikidata?
To get an article’s entity ID in Wikidata, you can: copy the link “Wikidata item” (‘wikibase-dataitem’ message key) in the sidebar in most skins. It ends with ‘Q’ NNNN ‘. access the wgWikibaseItemId variable in client-side JavaScript with mw.config.get ( ‘wgWikibaseItemId’ );