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Anybody ever edit a wikipedia entry? Supposedly you can do this, no? How do you do it? I've getting the urge to jack somebody or something up? Pure childishness. 3/2/1947 - 8/6/2011
Started by rizolltizide on
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This doesn't look to....
If you save any page.
Re: Anybody ever edit a wikipedia entry? You are not currently logged in.
Re: Anybody ever edit a wikipedia entry? Originally Posted by rizolltizide Supposedly you can do to grind.
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Http://politicalticker.blogs.c...ia-edits/?hpt=hp_bn3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...er7/Sandbox-Campaign
Started by epg-reincarnated on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at bicycling):
It's Wikipedia, not some type of authoritative source.
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I am just reading an article about how a service PR firms are offering now is for them to trawl Wiki for articles about and relating to their clients, and put positive spin on them.
Considering Wiki is supposed to be some mega communist circle-jerk, and...
Started by Mingeford on
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by 10 people.
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Is it illegal to edit wikipedia pages? Just out if curiosity?
Started by cj on
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by 7 people.
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But in general, you should edit Wikipedia whenever you want it's illegal to....
They might from editing if they are habitual vandals.
Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, there are people who vandalize it in various ways.
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Started by All_Your_Base on
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by 55 people.
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I would edit the user agreement to state that all liars I just love those videos so much.
RE-edit Marilyn Thatcher has a penis because she really does.
I thought of this question last night, but I still can't think of a good answer .
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On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of new pages, monthly activity etc.).
I'd like to put this info on my blog.
Can anyone recommend any API's that would allow me to do something...
Started by nzpcmad on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself .
MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia ( docs ).
Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API .
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The topic interests me because of Wikipedia's size. It may be easy to create some crons to update the sitemaps periodically in a small site, but what about a big one? So:
How does Wikipedia generate its Sitemap?
Started by Heo on
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The robots.txt file does not point....
GenerateSitemap.php?view=log / http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php
Edit: Ah generation code is in the phase3 trunk, I don't see any evidence that Wikipedia actually has it turned on.
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Hi, is there a way to batch copy certain wikipedia articles(about 10,000) to my own mediawiki site?
EDIT: How do I do this without overwriting similarly named articles/pages? Also I don't plan on using illegal means (crawlers etc)
Started by alimango on
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BTW, fetching a large number....
Here's a guide to import a Wikipedia database dump into MediaWiki .
The Wikipedia database is available for download
If you're looking to obtain a specific set or one of the import scripts in maintenance/ .
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I found a perl script that manages randomizing the wikipedia articles in Wikipedia here . The code seems to be slightly computer generated. Due to my present interest in MySQL, I thought you could possibly have the links and related data in a database...
Started by Masi on
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Edit....
Edit: From having a quick glance at the code, I am pretty sure they're using a field called page in the other answer.
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
If you really want to know how THEY (Wikipedia) do it, have a look of it.
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Post: #1 I love when you're reminded that anyone can edit wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gattis
So, which one of you got upset and vandalized his page?
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Post: #3 RE: I love when you're reminded that anyone can edit wikipedia reminded that anyone can edit....
Why/who) would be most likely.
That's brutal.
Post: #2 RE: I love when you're reminded that anyone can edit wikipedia.
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