Gerard provides an important insight below: The more we are able to
decouple the software components that run Wikipedia, the more open it
becomes to innovation. It is much harder to change one large piece of
software than it is to change and innovate on multiple components that
are decoupled from each other through well-defined standards.
I'm making this point, because the recent announcement of Wiki Creole is
an important step in this direction. It is only subset of what Mediawiki
provides, but may work well for 90% of all users, and it can serve as a
critical standard that decouples a (UI-less) wiki engine used through
services from wiki editors from additional wiki tooling like bots and
converters.
I don't understand Mediawiki enough in detail, but I would argue that
separating the rendering from the provision and storage of wiki pages
would save the WMF a lot of money. If you managed to unload the
rendering to clients, I'd assume the server capacity you provide could
be reduced, perhaps significantly.
Dirk
GerardM wrote:
Hoi,
It is nice that the pywikipediabot provides certain functionality. The
question is how usable is it in the first place when this info is
needed interactively. Also when there are more tools that provide a
great job, we will get a situation where advances in one tool will egg
on the people of another tool to do even better.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7/2/07, *Brian* <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu
<mailto:Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu>> wrote:
Pywikipediabot provides this functionality under a free license.
/Brian
On 7/2/07, * Jimmy Wales* <jwales(a)wikia.com
<mailto:jwales@wikia.com>> wrote:
Why don't you release this under a free license so that the
Wikimedia
Foundation could use it?
On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Torsten Zesch wrote:
JWPL - Java Wikipedia Library
version 0.3 beta is now available
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL
INTRODUCTION
Lately, Wikipedia has been recognized as a promising lexical
semantic resource. We present JWPL, a free Java-based Wikipedia
application programming interface, that enables the use of
Wikipedia as a NLP resource by providing efficient programmatic
access to the knowledge therein.
FUNCTIONALITY
Fast access to:
* article text
* categories
* redirects
* links between articles (ingoing and outgoing).
Discrimination between
* article pages
* disambiguation pages
* redirect pages.
Available languages:
* English
* German
* Czech
* Ukrainian
Other languages will be added step by step.
DOWNLOAD
JWPL Java library
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL
<http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL>
Wikipedia data
(with database scheme optimized for large-scale NLP tasks)
ftp://ftp.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/tud/informatik/JWPL_data
LICENCE
JWPL is free for non-profit and non-commercial use.
ABOUT
JWPL was developed by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
at Darmstadt University of Technlogy.
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de <http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de>
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