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Please look at the MediaWiki API documentation on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries continuing queries]. The E program implements this continuation - I tested it by setting the limit to 50. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 23:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Please look at the MediaWiki API documentation on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries continuing queries]. The E program implements this continuation - I tested it by setting the limit to 50. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 23:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
:I think Kevin is right. New tasks are popping up all over the place and once we have more than 500 the Perl and Python code won't work. If you can assure that you go through all of the category's members, you should. I don't understand how this MW API stuff works, but it looks like the documentation he linked to tells you what you need to do to go to the next page. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 03:26, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Please stop flagging Python as incorrect. E works at the same way.

And normal users can't fetch more than 500 results, Only bots. We have only 253 tasks. --Guga360 15:05, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Please look at the MediaWiki API documentation on continuing queries. The E program implements this continuation - I tested it by setting the limit to 50. --Kevin Reid 23:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I think Kevin is right. New tasks are popping up all over the place and once we have more than 500 the Perl and Python code won't work. If you can assure that you go through all of the category's members, you should. I don't understand how this MW API stuff works, but it looks like the documentation he linked to tells you what you need to do to go to the next page. --Mwn3d 03:26, 23 February 2009 (UTC)