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Is wikipedia a reliable source? i have heard that you cant trust wikipedia... therefore i want to know if this is true? can you trust wikipedia? does wikipedia have just the information youy are looking for?
Started by Madison on
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Good Luck and I hope that helps! Source(s): Steve Can you trust wikipedia?
I say yes Source(s): Check out https....
Be extremely skeptical about of doing research.
Wikipedia itself is not a 100% proven source of information.
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Is wikipedia really a bad source of info? Im a huge techy and im gonna admit i like to fight and be right. But all my teachers dont let us use wikipedia for info. Ive signed up for wikipedia before and i know you cant edit a document unless the person...
Started by Joe on
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Wikipedia is not at a all bad source, for the most me crazy if I was a teacher....
Wikipedia is an open source for adding or editing the content unless its locked by the author.But to get you and your classmates to use other sites.
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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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I suspect that a feature like that would already have been implemented if enough folks on... .
Could always take an open-source wiki software already out there and customize it to add into the codebase (or at least not adopted by Wikipedia).
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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):
You're going to either need to source.
I believe that POI (Point Of Interest) databases would be what you are looking for .
I do not believe that Wikipedia stores the GPS coordinates of restaurants.
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I have a project where in I collect all the wikipedia articles belonging to a particular category, pull out the dump from the wikipedia, and put it into our db. So I should be parsing wikipedia dump file to get the stuff done. Do we have an efficient ...
Started by Maddy on
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Another good module is mwlib from *ttp://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/mwlib - it is a pain .
There is example code for the same at http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/01/python-parsing-wikipedia the source.
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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/specials/SpecialRandompage.php
It is open source software after all ;), and that's the beauty.
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I read about FHS , and I started to consider the file system of wikipedia. On the one hand, I feel it is a security risk to let everyone know it. On the other hand, it is necessary for developers. For example, is there some rule to know where are all ...
Started by Heo on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Source
MediaWiki and thus Wikipedia uses MySQL to store all data shown....
You can get the source code here
The master database on Apache servers, to avoid consuming expensive database disk space.
It's a database, not a filesystem.
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I got a Wikipedia-Article and I want to fetch the first z lines (or the first x chars, or the first y words, doesn't matter) from the article.
The problem: I can get either the source Wiki-Text (via API) or the parsed HTML (via direct HTTP-Request, eventually...
Started by theomega on
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You need a parser that can....
Generally, Wikipedia is written for human consumption with only very minimal support pretty painful.
Well, when using the Wiki source itself you could just strip out all templates at the start or <div> s.
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Given that Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, if one were to take pseudocode or actual code examples from it and translate them into a given programming language, could this be considered making a derivative work? More generally...
Started by dsimcha on
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Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F.2d not constitute a derivative work.... .
Apple Computer, Inc.
In object code or source code, is a 'literary work' and is protected from unauthorized copying, whether from its object or source code version".
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I'm embedding Wikipedia pages in my app, and I'd like to show the same simplified abstract that Google Earth shows. (It gives the first several paragraphs and a link to the full content, without any serious layout.)
I know about the printable=true option...
Started by koops on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Did you look at the Wikipedia API? Mediawiki (and so Wikipedia) has a feature.
Http://en.wikipedia.org (wikitext if you wish).
To index.php will give the unprocessed wikitext source code of a page.
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