openjournal - User contributions [en]

OpenJournal:News 2 2026-09-13

2026-09-13T10:09:32Z

Professorlamp:

Any user can now store their unfinished posts as drafts.

You'll see a "My drafts" section in the menu.

Write your articles in there and they will stay unlisted (but shareable if you wish) until you decide to publish them via the Publish button.

2026-09-11T13:39:31Z

Professorlamp:

<div class="oj-hero"><div class="oj-hero-title">openjournal</div>
<div class="oj-hero-sub">
Openjournal is a fully decentralised blogging/journaling/notetaking ecosystem.

Sign in with your wikipedia login and begin writing.

See our [[OpenJournal:Getting started|Getting started]] guide for more.

Want to write here but host your articles elsewhere? Read our [[OpenJournal:API|API guide]].
</div>

== Latest articles ==

{{Latest articles page|offset=0|next=OpenJournal:Latest/2}}

== Everyone writing here ==

{{#dpl:
|namespace = User
|nottitlematch = %/%
|ordermethod = title
|count = 100
|mode = userformat
|listseparators = <span class="oj-authors">,<span>[[%PAGE%{{!}}%TITLE%]]</span>,,</span>
|allowcachedresults = false
}}

== Wanting to help out? ==

See [[OpenJournal:Helping out]] for a guide on taking backups of the database and general contribution guidelines.

OpenJournal:Getting started

2026-09-11T13:38:52Z

Professorlamp: Created page with " == Embedding OpenJournal content on another site == === Article titles === <pre> fetch('https://openjournal.wiki/users/JohnSmith/posts').then(r=>r.json()).then(d=>console.log(d.query.pages.filter(p=>!p.redirect).map(p=>p.title.replace(/^User:[^/]+\//,'')))); </pre> Would return <pre> [ 'Welcome to OpenJournal!', 'Entr - The file watcher you’ve never heard of', "You don't need Vimwiki", 'Linux Audio Production', '10 minutes with K' ] </pre> === Article..."

== Embedding OpenJournal content on another site ==

=== Article titles ===

<pre>
fetch('https://openjournal.wiki/users/JohnSmith/posts').then(r=>r.json()).then(d=>console.log(d.query.pages.filter(p=>!p.redirect).map(p=>p.title.replace(/^User:[^/]+\//,''))));
</pre>

Would return
<pre>
[
'Welcome to OpenJournal!',
'Entr - The file watcher you’ve never heard of',
"You don't need Vimwiki",
'Linux Audio Production',
'10 minutes with K'
]

</pre>

=== Article content ===

<pre>
fetch('https://openjournal.wiki/users/Professorlamp/posts/Welcome_to_OpenJournal!').then(r=>r.text()).then(t=>console.log(t));
</pre>

<pre>
Your articles content
</pre>

2026-09-11T10:22:25Z

Professorlamp:

2026-09-11T08:57:42Z

Professorlamp: Created page with "= FAQ = == Why should I use this instead of {popular blogging site}? == Other sites will often put your content behind Paywalls (Medium for example) or require login to view your articles. If you write your content here, it is free to be viewed by anyone forever. == What if OpenJournal goes away? == OpenJournal, like all wikis allow anyone (including you, the reader) to take a dump of the entire database containing all articles. Nothing..."

OpenJournal:API

2026-09-11T08:46:21Z

Professorlamp:

openjournal uses MediaWiki as a backend for all of its content. Anything that is possible on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page MediaWiki API] is possible here too.

== REST API ==

For convenience, OpenJournal abstracts some of the MediaWiki URLs into a more modern RESTful format.

You can see some examples below:

<pre>
GET /users/{username}/posts all of a user's posts, alphabetical by title
GET /users/{username}/posts/{title} one post: title, wikitext, last-edited time
GET /users/{username}/posts/{title}?format=html the same post, rendered to HTML
GET /users/{username} redirects to their journal (browsable)
</pre>

<code>{title}</code> is the part after the slash, with spaces as underscores, e.g.
<code>/users/Alice/posts/Laying_a_hedge</code> for
<code>User:Alice/Laying a hedge</code>.

== All articles by one user (the underlying MediaWiki call) ==

Same data the <code>/users/{username}/posts</code> route above returns, and where
its extra parameters -- excerpts, URLs -- come from, if you want to add your own.

<pre>
GET /api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apnamespace=2&apprefix=Alice/&format=json
</pre>

== One article, as HTML ==

<pre>
GET /rest.php/v1/page/User%3AAlice%2FSome_title/html
</pre>

== One article, as source ==

<pre>
GET /rest.php/v1/page/User%3AAlice%2FSome_title
</pre>

== Every article on the site, newest first ==

<pre>
GET /api.php?action=query&generator=recentchanges&grcnamespace=2&grclimit=30&format=json
</pre>

== Excerpts and lead images, for a card or a feed ==

<pre>
GET /api.php?action=query&prop=extracts|pageimages&exchars=300&explaintext=1&titles=User:Alice/Some_title&format=json
</pre>

== An Atom feed of everything ==

<pre>
GET /index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom&namespace=2
</pre>

One author's feed is the same URL narrowed with <code>&tagfilter=</code> or, more
simply, poll <code>list=allpages</code> above.

== Writing from your own code ==

See [[OpenJournal:API/Recipes]] for worked examples, or the full parameter reference
at [[Special:ApiHelp/query]] — it is generated from this wiki's own installed modules,
so it is never out of date.

2026-09-11T08:34:29Z

Professorlamp:

OpenJournal:Latest articles

2026-09-11T08:29:40Z

Professorlamp:

All articles:

{{Latest articles page|offset=0|count=50}}

User:Professorlamp/Linux Audio Production

2026-09-11T08:19:33Z

Professorlamp:

User:Professorlamp/Linux Audio Production

2026-09-11T08:19:06Z

Professorlamp: