In order to obtain current events from the Wikipedia in wiki markup, an application generally needs to take the following steps: 1. Construct the current date string in the form of "YYYY_MO_DA", e.g., "2009_April_1" 2. Perform GET by the URL for the given date string for viewing the page source, e.g, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2009_April_1... 3. Pick the content of the HTML <textarea> element.
Since not documented, i'm wondering whether the above is the expected way of accessing the current events in Wikipedia? Or is there a more elegant solution for the same task?
TIA, Shriram
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Shriram Getc shriram.getc@yahoo.com wrote:
In order to obtain current events from the Wikipedia in wiki markup, an application generally needs to take the following steps: 1. Construct the current date string in the form of "YYYY_MO_DA", e.g., "2009_April_1" 2. Perform GET by the URL for the given date string for viewing the page source, e.g, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2009_April_1... 3. Pick the content of the HTML <textarea> element.
Since not documented, i'm wondering whether the above is the expected way of accessing the current events in Wikipedia? Or is there a more elegant solution for the same task?
Dunno, but your post ended up in my spam filter for some reason. FYI in case it helps and in case others also had the same problem. Hopefully this repost won't have the same problems.
Carcharoth
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Shriram Getc shriram.getc@yahoo.com wrote:
In order to obtain current events from the Wikipedia in wiki markup, an
application generally needs to take the following steps:
- Construct the current date string in the form of "YYYY_MO_DA", e.g.,
"2009_April_1"
- Perform GET by the URL for the given date string for viewing the page
source, e.g,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2009_April_1...
- Pick the content of the HTML <textarea> element.
Since not documented, i'm wondering whether the above is the expected way
of accessing the current events in Wikipedia? Or is there a more elegant solution for the same task?
Dunno, but your post ended up in my spam filter for some reason. FYI in case it helps and in case others also had the same problem. Hopefully this repost won't have the same problems.
Carcharoth
Same here. Quite a few posts have in fact. Very annoying.
2009/4/2 Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
Dunno, but your post ended up in my spam filter for some reason. FYI in case it helps and in case others also had the same problem. Hopefully this repost won't have the same problems.
Same here. Quite a few posts have in fact. Very annoying.
Mine too. Note we're all on Gmail. Could those on Gmail please find the original email and mark it "not spam" in the hope the otherwise lovely Gmail spam filter gets the idea? Thank you :-)
- d.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/2 Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Dunno, but your post ended up in my spam filter for some reason. FYI in case it helps and in case others also had the same problem. Hopefully this repost won't have the same problems.
Same here. Quite a few posts have in fact. Very annoying.
Mine too. Note we're all on Gmail. Could those on Gmail please find the original email and mark it "not spam" in the hope the otherwise lovely Gmail spam filter gets the idea? Thank you :-)
- d.
It was in my spam folder as well, I've marked it as not spam so hopefully Google will figure it out.
--Falcorian