On 1/30/07, Nick Jenkins <nickpj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070124/ -
"page abstracts for
Yahoo" - what is this file?
[... snip ...]
<title>Wikipedia: April</title>
<url>http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April</url>
<abstract>
April is the fourth month of the year with 30 days. The name April
comes from that Latin word aperire which means "to open".
</abstract>
Just out of curiosity, how is that abstract generated, and could
it be generated quickly on the fly?
It looks to just be the first two sentences of the article.