I'm forwarding this to wikitech-l.

I've been wanting to do a dump of our article titles to insert into the search engines that I manage (bomis and 3apes, mainly), just to drive more of the traffic that I influence towards wikipedia. I did a little program for this in the old UseMod days, but Bomis hasn't updated it's wikipedia links since then. :-(

Perhaps we should have a script to generate RDF, which is a simple format used by dmoz and familiar to search engine operators.

--Jimbo

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From: Stephen Gilbert canuck_in_korea2002@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:29:48 -0700 (PDT) To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Adding Wikipedia to OneLook

I just received this from the maintainer of OneLook, a meta-search of dictionaries (and some encyclopedias). Is there any way to produce a flat file of all our articles? This would also allow Wikipedia to once again work with Sunir Shah's MetaWiki search.

If you haven't tried OneLook before, give it a spin. It's fantastic.

http://www.onelook.com/

Stephen G.

--- Doug Beeferman doug@dougb.com wrote:

Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:16:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Beeferman doug@dougb.com To: canuck_in_korea2002@yahoo.com

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your kind feedback on OneLook and sorry for the delay in responding to you. I already have some familiarity with Wikipedia/Nupedia as a user and would love to add its headwords to OneLook. Could you assist me in this? In particular, do you know of a flat file that I could point OneLook's update engine to that lists Wikipedia's headwords (or topic names, or however they're called in Wiki-land)?

Running the available SQL files through MySQL to dump these headwords on every update would be a bit unwieldy for various reasons. One alternative would be a script that extracts the headwords from the .sql file, but I don't want to rewrite this if it's already been done.

(I just spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out how to post this question on meta.wikipedia.com. I was defeated. There's probaby something I'm missing or too lazy to read...)

Thanks again for writing. Are you involved actively in Wikipedia's maintenance? If so, good luck with the project -- it looks like it's really taking off!

Doug (a canuck in America)

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I just discovered One-Look and it has quickly found a much coveted space on my browser's Personal Toolbar. I especially appreciate the lack of pop-up ads. Thanks for the great resource!

I notice you have several encyclopedias in your database. I would like to suggest an encyclopedia called Wikipedia. It is an effort to build a complete encyclopedia from scratch, written by volunteers and released under the GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia is one and a half years old, and currently has about 40,000 articles, many of which are very good.

Cheers!

Stephen Gilbert

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