Blog of Auzigog – Jeremy Blanchard

I’m in the process of writing mediawiki2wordpress—a plugin to allow WordPress to access and display content from a MediaWiki installation. I spent a bit of the evening figuring out how to get MediaWiki to let me trick it into thinking I was making a standard request.

The method I explain here gives you access to the MediaWiki API class as opposed to the standard MediaWiki rendering class. Most of this code came from MediaWiki’s api.php which you can find in MediaWiki 1.13.

Here’s what the API output will look like for the Foobar page on Wikipedia (in XML).

I spent quite a bit of time poking around in the MediaWiki /includes directory and trying different hack-ish methods before this page that had exactly what I needed! It did need updating, but I was happy to oblige. I even had this whole post written up using a sloppier approach before finding the FauxRequest class that I explain below.
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