Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/320/
Reported by: Anonymous user
Created on: 2012-11-17 21:33:36
Subject: Support of preload param in page.get()
Original description:
Would it be nice to support  'inprop': 'preload' for 'prop': 'info' when calling query GetData\(\) to get text even if page is does not exist.

It could be added as argument to page.get\(..., preload = False\) and used to return data\['query'\]\['pages'\]\["-1"\]\['preload'\] with something like:
if data\['query'\]\['pages'\].keys\(\)\[0\] == "-1":
if 'missing' in pageInfo:
if preload:
....

That would be useful when trying to get text in still not created page.
This kind of pages are quite common on en:Wikisource, due text layer being already present in used djvu files.

E.g. \[Page:Debates in the Several State Conventions, v1.djvu/189\].

Thanks and bye