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:
I see. Is there a place to discuss such technology then? I'd really like to see Wikipedia available beyond the standard webbrowser. If there was a way to get out semantic xhtml (or better yet, a custom wikipedia xml that is really rich), then we could do all sorts of interesting things. This is the sort of stuff I'm thinking of:
a HitchHiker's style animated interface local copies of common articles, pre-index with Lucene for full text searching ability to add personal or shared annotations (teacher to student, for example) convert a series of dates and events into an interactive timeline render rich media in the client (video, animation, audio, svg, mathml) reorganize a page to highlight certain content split pages into smaller pages for ebook readers, wml phones, etc.
All sorts of interesting things become possible if we have some programmatic way of accessing Wikipedia content.
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.
You've heard of it?! That's great. Yeah, we are still working on it. Release 5 should be coming out any day now and I've already got some experimental support for incremental layout in a branch. It's starting to be pretty good.
- J
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