Mobile API not providing many infoboxes in the German Wikipedia
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	Inbefortus
	Jul 1 2022, 9:39 AM

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For some reason, there are many infoboxes that are not provided by the mobile API, which results in MWOffliner not being able to scrape them. This applies to every article about battles, continents, and more recently(!), movies/TV shows. It is strange that this always affects particular article categories. The problem is that, if this continues, a lot of relevant data will be lost over time.

Example:

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Mobile API: https://de.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-sections/Schlacht_bei_Wavre

The infobox should have been provided in the mobile API, just as many other millions of infoboxes are.

MWOffliner ticket:
https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/1492

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Inbefortus created this task.Jul 1 2022, 9:39 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJul 1 2022, 9:39 AM

The infobox should have been provided in the mobile API, just as many other millions of infoboxes are.

@Inbefortus: Hi, could you please provide an API call URL that includes such an infobox, for comparison? Thanks.

@Aklapper Of course.

https://de.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-sections/Tronchetto

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Hmm, alright. Tronchetto uses {{Infobox Insel}}, Schlacht bei Wavre uses {{Infobox Militärischer Konflikt}}

hgzh subscribed.Jul 1 2022, 11:15 AM

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Kiwix mwoffliner does not use this API anymore.

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	Jul 1 2022, 10:24 AM

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