On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Radhika Gaonkar radhikag992@gmail.comwrote:
I am very new to the mediawiki-api . I am planning on using this toextract geo - information about places . I have been referring to this tutorial by scraper wiki https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/12/how-to-scrape-and-parse-wikipedia/ . Though I am not sure if I should be using this api or the offline dump
Don't scrape the live wiki. You may scrape a dump if you'd like.
Note that, if the only "geo information" you need are the coordinates, you can use the API to query them, like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates&tit... .
and what is the difference between the two data sets ?
Mainly, the dumps are generated about once per month so they're not completely up-to-date.