hi!
Hello all. I was wondering if there is a particular website or mailing list specifically about automated access to the Wikipedia content? I'm thinking of something along the lines of a webservice API or spec for semantic XHTML content. Perhaps something about desktop application access as well?
at the moment there is no such thing as a machine friendly interface, but some stuff about that can be found on meta, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine-friendly_wiki_interface http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Client http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Export_and_import http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiText_Transfer_Protocol
[[de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb]] has written a patch to enable more "interesting" XHTML output:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/XML
I'm the author of Flying Saucer, an embeddable Java XHTML renderer and I'm interested in making a client which could render Wikipedia content in interesting ways. (annotations, searching, animation, etc.) I'm wondering if there are existing resources on this some where.
i'm glad to hear flying saucer is alive! i'd very much like to use it for preview in my jEdit plugin, but could not get it to render mediawiki-output some months ago.
daniel