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  KDE and Wikipedia Announce Cooperation
KDE Official News Posted by Sven Krohlas on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @11:46
from the missing-ligature dept.
Today Jimmy Wales, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced the beginning of a cooperation between Wikimedia and the KDE project at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. As the first applications, like the media player amaroK, start to integrate Wikipedia content the idea is to create a webservice API to access the information from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia or Wiktionary. There are also plans for a KDE API.

Wikipedia in amaroK

The API would allow KDE applications to easily embed Wikimedia content, data could even be fetched from a local database depending on your online/offline status. First progress can be seen in Knowledge, a Qt 4 based offline reader for Wikipedia.

Jimmy was also searching for people who want to help with the design of this API, so if you want a good API for your application join the efforts!



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great!
by LMCBoy on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @14:38
This will be really great for the "AstroInfo" articles in KStars. These are short, hyperlinked articles about astronomical concepts. They are currently in the KStars handbook, but I've been thinking for a while I'd like to break them into a separate reader and make it more tightly integrated with the rest of the program.

Some of the AstroInfo articles have already migrated into Wikipedia.

Seems like a good opportunity for two great projects (KDE and Wikimedia) to help each other out.
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APIv
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:01
If you wish to follow this in the future there's an open bug for external APIs here: vhttp://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208
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Idea for the kicker watch
by Patrick Trettenbrein on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:06
A great feature would be a point in kontextmenu of the kicker watch that is called "Show this day in history" (or something simmilar). So that konqueror is started and shows the wikipedia entry for the current date in history.

Example: It's the 24.06.2005 (I'm sorry for writing the date this way, but I'm Austrian and don't really know the American or English way :)) Klick on the menu entry and konqueror shows up with the URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/24._Juni

Patrick
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Why use SOAP?
by Flavio on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:06
"en:SOAP/en:WSDL is probably the best choice since it can deliver semantics (as opposed to en:XML-RPC) and is an accepted industry standard also used by e.g. google"

Please consider REST style web services, which, IMHO, are much easier to use and more powerful. Read this article for quick introduction to REST: http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

For more info, there is a wiki: http://rest.blueoxen.net/
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Translation
by Andre on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:07
Hope the translation issue also gets adressed. KDE's translation infrastructure is getting outdated.
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Local Wikipedias
by Bram Schoenmakers on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @16:20
I think it would be better if it automatically redirected you to the local Wikipedia, if available, else it should fall back to the English WP.

(P.S. It would be cool to integrate KWorldClock with WP, just click on a country/city/area et voila...)
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Mediawiki specific?
by Petteri on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @00:33
Hopefully this will be more broader than just Wikipedia, mayby mediawiki specific? There are so many other good wikis :) For example kdevelop could use http://gpwiki.org/ for help pages when doing game programming etc.

This project sound really exiting can't wait for the new amarok to arrive to Debian.
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this is cool
by Bojan on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @07:46
I got nothing really useful to say, other than this is really cool. I think this could add a lot of power and neat features to many applications, and the KDE desktop in general.
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Wikipedia in amaroK sounds nice, but...
by mmebane on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @08:57
...when do we get a Wikilyrics? A Google search shows one with this name, but the site appears to be dead. Wikipedia already has lots of info on albums, it would be nice if it could have lyrics, too.
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generic api?
by Derek Slovin on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @09:19
Would this api be specific to KDE? or can any application use the webservice (like a gtk app, windows app, osx app, etc). It seems to me that this is just a webservice and I am confused as to why kde is involved.
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Wikihelp?
by Zot on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @10:33
Could the help system use this?
Obviously, there would need to be a mechanism for storing a local minimal version during install, but then this API could be used to keep the help up to date.
This would also allow the help by way of wiki to include more tips and tricks and such.
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