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Now Wikipedia has an API
- simonw 18y agoThis isn't new - it's probably Wikipedia's best kept secret though. It first got saved to del.icio.us in November 2006: http://del.icio.us/url/08d335d4c1d2f491cc70e1bf61e5d880 http://del.icio.us/url/08d335d4c1d2f491cc70e1bf61e5d880
- peterpoe 18y agoIt's still a work in progress I think. It was hard to find for me too, when I built http://www.wikirandom.org http://www.wikirandom.org
- fish 18y agoWikipedia bots (ex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot) have been using this for a while (at least a year).
- bbb 18y agoWhat format do they use? It looks like neither SOAP nor XML-RPC. It looks more like some home-brew XML-dialect. Are they reinventing the wheel, and if so, why?
- jrockway 18y agoThey're PHP programmers. It's a well kept secret, but PHP actually stands for "reinvent the wheel thousands of times because I don't know any better". But hey, at least they don't have to install CPAN modules! That's hard! </sarcasm>
- anewaccountname 18y agoIt is somewhat ironic that you said that seeing as CPAN is a whole collection of wheel reinventions...
- tlrobinson 18y agoYou can also get the MySQL dumps (and have been able to for awhile): http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download