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Hello,
I want help on this script I am making...
I want my website to be a wikipedia in itself... take for example I have a php website... I publish daily articles on it.
Suppose I publish 2 articles on Jenna Bush and Michael Jackson respectively
now ...
Started by Pushpinder on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
like that is using str_replace http://ie2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
Right before that mediawiki (the software that wikipedia runs on uses), everytime you want to create a link to another ); }
the create link function simply....
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Hi, I'm trying to understand how I should work with characters in URLs , this because I'm building a site where the user can store content and go to the content's page by digiting it's name in the URL .
so, something like Wikipedia or Last.FM website....
Started by Vittorio Vittori on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Considered using something like:
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(user/)(.+?)[/]?$ user.php?username=$2.
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Hi guys,
Is it possible to get list of restaurants with theirs gps-coordinates from wikipedia. Like "AroundMe" app for iPhone
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I believe that POI your own database or use someone else's API - perhaps something like the Yelp API would suffice?.
I do not believe that Wikipedia stores the GPS coordinates of restaurants.
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Wikipedia Blackout: Websites Wikipedia, Reddit, Others Go Dark Wednesday to Protest SOPA, PIPA Do not try to look up "Internet Censorship" or "SOPA" or "PIPA" on Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, on Wednesday. SOPA and PIPA are two bills in Congress...
Started by HipHopAnonymous on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at jazzfanz):
That way they can control....
Never bet with a Sicilian when death is on the line! We're screwed Wikipedia for the little guy.
Simplify.
If I don't have access to Wikipedia for a day, I think I can on them.
Or download some content participated.
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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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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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I know that the wiki concept is let people from around the world contribute and everything. Now is there a way to add code ("contribute") to Wikipedia's codebase? Open-source?
For eg. I'd like to offer a poll to every Wikipedian (registered user) on their...
Started by Jeremy Rudd on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You'd contribute to MediaWiki....
I believe you're referring to creating a plugin for MediaWiki .
I suspect that a feature like that would in the functionality you would like.
Into the codebase (or at least not adopted by Wikipedia).
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Hi,
I'm trying to find out if there's a wikipedia api (I Think it is related to the mediawiki?).
If so, I would like to know how I would tell wikipedia to give me an article about the new york yankees for example.
What would the REST url be for this example...
Started by chris on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Your best bet is to know the page you will be after and replace the Wikipedia link part.
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
Specifically for Wikipedia API is located at http to get.
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I see there are many php (and other) frameworks for writing wikipedia bots, but isn't captcha a problem? Or bots don't have to solve it (but that sounds like there's no point to having captcha in the first place...)? Or maybe i can make my prog stop and...
Started by Phil on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Captcha for what? Editing articles? I'm pretty sure they encourage maintenance bots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ABots
Properly-registered bots do not have to complete....
I wasn't aware that Wikipedia had any sort of captcha...
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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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
If you really want to know how THEY (Wikipedia) do it, have a look it to show PHP newbies what good PHP code looks like (and to remind myself)..
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When it comes to classifying music by genre, I've found wikipedia to have more interesting genre information than most other data sources.
I seem to remember a database that collected this sort of information from Wikipedia and made it more easily accessible...
Started by Kenny on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Example comparing genre listings of Freebase and Wikipedia for the band Radiohead:
Freebase : alternative rock, art rock, electronic music, progressive rock, electronica, and....
Wikipedia, then you should probably download a database dump .
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