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The Mediawiki API is pretty powerful. The annoying thing about Wiktionary (for this purpose) is that it's explicitly not machine readable, so the entries can o
by adhesive_wombat 4y ago
The Mediawiki API is pretty powerful.
The annoying thing about Wiktionary (for this purpose) is that it's explicitly not machine readable, so the entries can only really be handled as free-form HTML. Parsing the Wikicode, despite heavy use of standard templates, would be very hard to do robustly.
- bawolff 4y agoOnce upon a time i had a project to do that. and it was miserable (but also it was when i was first learning to program... so i did a lot of stupid things)
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoWikidata has lexemes now, which, like the rest of Wikidata, has great potential that's largely ignored both in general and by the parent organisation.
- bawolff 4y agoYeah, we'll see how the lexeme thing goes. There is also the earlier (non-wmf) omegawiki project that tried to do something similar.