Curate Upstream PRs

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Curate pull-requests from upstream that should be merged here – https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/pulls

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Requests

• Re-use the same requests session goldsmith/Wikipedia#64
• Add a timeout to all requests goldsmith/Wikipedia#137
• Use HTTPs for everything goldsmith/Wikipedia#160
• Added proxy support for all requests goldsmith/Wikipedia#206
• enabled non-English geosearch, fixed bug in coordinates and added revision history goldsmith/Wikipedia#219

Parsing

• The 'parse' action requires 'text' to parse. goldsmith/Wikipedia#76
• Adding capability to paginate the results while searching goldsmith/Wikipedia#110
• Add variant support goldsmith/Wikipedia#120 – requires understanding 'variants' and how to access them through the API
• Correct suggestions goldsmith/Wikipedia#131 – requires understanding how suggestions work
• https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/pull/182/files
• new feature: revision_timestamp property to retrieve the time of the most recent revision goldsmith/Wikipedia#187
• use dict.get() call when retrieving props form page goldsmith/Wikipedia#205
• Fixed incorrect indication of the Wikipedia language. Added custom exception with the empty query.  goldsmith/Wikipedia#230
• Trim and validate query goldsmith/Wikipedia#235

BeautifulSoup

• Specify HTML parser for BeautifulSoup to supress warnings. goldsmith/Wikipedia#112
• Added parser to BeautifulSoup goldsmith/Wikipedia#128

Sections

• sections API call requires "page" and not "titles" as a key goldsmith/Wikipedia#84
• Fixed WikipediaPage.sections. It was always returning '' goldsmith/Wikipedia#101
• Update wikipedia.py goldsmith/Wikipedia#103
• sections API call requires "page" and not "titles" as a key goldsmith/Wikipedia#115

Language

• New Feature: Lang Title  goldsmith/Wikipedia#100 or list possible languages for a page
• added langlink property handling and tests for it. goldsmith/Wikipedia#179

Documentation

• https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/pull/109/files