There are image-specific actions mentioned in the API, but click around
the pages on commons.wikimedia.org and you'll see that the bulk of the
"pages" are media files with their associated descriptions, so that's
what you're searching through the Commons API.
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Pat Lockley wrote:
> No mention of sound or video on those pages (might be missing something?)
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Martin Poulter
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Just to be clear, every Wikimedia project, in every language, has its own
>> API. For Commons (where the image, video and sound files are housed) it's
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php
>>
>> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Phil Barker wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/05/2011 10:31, Pat Lockley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> *wipes egg from face*
>>>>
>>>> The only thing that'd be nice would be to search pictures on string,
>>>
>>> How about a wikimedia category search for
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:String
>>>
>>> ... I'll get my coat
>>>
>>>
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Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
The full experience: http://infobomb.org/
Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter
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"Creating a world in which every single human being can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge"
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