Hello Brion,
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:15:36 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
For inter-wiki moves (to meta or sep11), bot-runners, and spot-backups, it would be useful to have a way to grab individual pages in a machine-friendly package, which can be easily popped into or out of another wiki or other software.
Sample and (perhaps?) discussion of proposed XML wrapper format: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import/export
If you really want it to make machine-friendly the wiki-markup must be "xmlized" as well, so [[revision]] should be changed to something like <link type="wiki">revision</link> (and type="external" if it's an external link). The same should happen with
Current revision only: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Wiki_table_test
tables of course and other things like lists, pictures, ...
As well there should be a XSL that is missing at the moment as well.
... but I like the idea ;-) At the end we can offer a web-service- interface for queries from other systems, e.g. for meta-crawlers using the Google- and Wikipedia-API for collecting informations about a specific topic.
Regards, Lothar