-----Original Message-----
From: Don Rameez [mailto:rameezdon@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 9:33 PM
To: Poor, Edmund W
Subject: RE: "Auto Extraction from WWW"

Dear Edmund,   thanx for acknowledging soon &  answering to my queries i appreciate ur concern for the Knowledge base   i would like to ask u one more query ....    Q) We now have the SQL dump,  apart from MySQL is there any possibility that we can       access the data in some other format ( say plain TEXT ....)     regards   Don Rameez   -------Original Message-------   From: Poor, Edmund W Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:27:37 AM To: Don Rameez Subject: RE: "Auto Extraction from WWW"   Your questions are best put to our senior developers, but I'll give you some preliminary answers.   1. All our articles are stored as plain English text. There is a bit of markup used for links. 2. We are not encouraging direct server-to-server links. Rather, we invite users to edit articles via the web interface. 3. You can get a SQL dump, if you want the entire database. It's much less than one GB in size, and could possibly fit on one CD (we are planning to publish a CD eventually).   The difference between our project and yours is that we are a non-encoded encyclopedia. We just have a collection of articles.   You are trying to "encode" knowledge, which is Very Difficult. Many attempts have been made in the past; I can't think of a single success, but I can think of half a dozen spectacular failures. It's harder than it looks!   I applaud the attempt, but this task involves artificial intelligence (AI), and AI has not progressed beyond the so-called "expert system" or "neural net". These are the toys of AI and have not produced reliable, comprehensive results.   What do you really hope to accomplish, in the next 5 to 10 years?   Sincerely,   Ed Poor Developer & Sysop Wikipedia -----Original Message----- From: Don Rameez [mailto:rameezdon@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:35 PM To: JeLuF@gmx.de; ts4294967296@hotmail.com; maveric149@yahoo.com; Poor, Edmund W; wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org; JeLuF@gmx.de; ts4294967296@hotmail.com; maveric149@yahoo.com; Poor, Edmund W; wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org Cc: nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in Subject: "Auto Extraction from WWW" Dear Sir,   We are a group of 3 students currently pursuing our B.E - IT (Bachelor of Engg. Information Technology)from the Mumbai University, INDIA.  As of now we are working on a project titled " AUTO EXTRACTION OF CONTENTS FROM THE WORLD WIDE WEB" as a part of our BE project, in the renowned institute of HBCSE-TIFR ( Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) under the guidance of Scientist Dr.Nagarjuna.G.    Our project is based on :     OS      - GNU/LINUX      Language     - Python     Server       - Zope     Application  - GNOWSYS   GNOWSYS, Gnowledge Networking and Organizing System, is a web application for developing and maintaining semantic web content developed in Python and works as an installed product in Zope.  Our project involves automatically extracting data from the (WWW) World Wide Web) & use GNOWSYS for handling this vast amount of data. This will not only help us store data in the Gnowledge base in form of meaningful relationships but also see its handling of huge amount of data. The URL for our site is http://www.gnowledge.org   With this regards we could think no one but Wikipedia, which in itself is a phenomenon.   We would be glad if u could answer to few of our queries :   1] What is the format in which the data is stored in Wikipedia ??? 2] Apart from http or ftp are there any other specific protocols that are in use,    which will be required to communicate to the Wikipedia Server ??? 3] How can we utilize the SQL dump ???   We hope you will answer our queries at the earliest With warm regards                            Thanking You           [ Rameez Don , Jaymin Darbari, Ulhas Dhuri ]