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