[Mediawiki-l] Pulling specific content from Wikipedia

[=James Birkholz=]

This comes up all the time and I think the usual answer is (if you have the 
skills) to write/modify code to use a bot, usually using Python scripts. 
There are scripts available to modify. I don't have the skills, so I've 
copied and pasted until I lost interest.

James

At 03:47 PM 3/8/2006 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi there!
>
>I am working on my Masters Project for Kent State University, and my project
>is to develop a wiki for their public radio station ­ specifically dealing
>with folk music.
>
>I¹m struggling to find a way to pre-populate it with the vast information
>already available on Wikipedia (or if it¹s even possible).
>
>I see Wikipedia has an API, which would allow me access to their
>information... but I don¹t know if this would fit our needs.
>
>I also see they have a dump of the entire system, but I don¹t know if you
>can pull out just the information you want.
>
>Finally ­ if neither of these are good possibilities, are there any good
>suggestions how to go about building a wiki from the ground up ­ to
>eventually be the home for folk music on the web?  :)
>
>Thanks,
>Roger Zender
>Cleveland, OH
>
>~~ http://www.rogerzmusic.com ~~
>             Support Live Music!
>
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