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
----- Forwarded message from Stephen Gilbert <canuck_in_korea2002(a)yahoo.com> -----
From: Stephen Gilbert <canuck_in_korea2002(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:29:48 -0700 (PDT)
To: wikipedia-l(a)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(a)dougb.com> wrote:
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:16:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Doug Beeferman <doug(a)dougb.com>
To: <canuck_in_korea2002(a)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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