On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:24:08 +0200, Daan Kuijsten daankuijsten@gmail.com wrote:
Querying specific (structured) data from Wikipedia is still very difficult in my opinion. My suggestion is that every paragraph, image, link and table get a unique identifiable number. This way Wikipedia gets more machine readable.
You want Semantic MediaWiki[1] then (which the Wikipedias don't use) or Wikidata[2], which is one of Wikipedia's sister projects and has been growing very fast. Wikipedia was never intended to be machine-readable in the way you propose (although it does provide access to MediaWiki's awesome API).
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki [2] https://www.wikidata.org/