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by John Tapsell on Sunday 12/Feb/2006, @14:36

Was wikipedia support ever added to kalzium? Or is it still planned/just a wish?

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Re: Wikipedia
by Carsten Niehaus on Sunday 12/Feb/2006, @22:38

We need the Webapi of MediaWiki first, so it is a KDE4-task.

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Re: Wikipedia
by Hans on Monday 13/Feb/2006, @02:32

No, you dont need KDE4 - look how Amarok did it :-)

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Re: Wikipedia
by Carsten Niehaus on Monday 13/Feb/2006, @04:58

Amarok is only parsing the html the wikipedia spits out, removes the wikipedia-stuff and displays the content. What if the Wikipedia changes the html? Amarok would need to be patched. Also, the integration is much more than just displaying an article.

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Re: Wikipedia
by John Tapsell on Monday 13/Feb/2006, @17:12

Wikipedia has special url to get the raw data for an article. I'd have to look it up, but it's something like ?raw

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Re: Wikipedia
by Jos on Tuesday 14/Feb/2006, @06:17

?action=raw for the raw wiki text e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic?action=raw

This is however not really useful, because you get the unformatted wiki text.

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Re: Wikipedia
by ac on Tuesday 14/Feb/2006, @07:05

Why is that not really useful? I thought the pre-processed data is what was wanted to begin with? (That this needs to be processed first to embed images and links etc. is obvious, but this also offers added flexibility.)

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Re: Wikipedia
by Carsten Niehaus on Tuesday 14/Feb/2006, @09:30

We want far more, for example an API for:

"give me an article for the word "Enzyme". If that article is available in one of these languages return in one of these languages (in order of listing), if not return the english article [de,fr,it]"

That is not possible now. Or

"Give me articles related to the article "Enzyme""

I hope you can now see we need much more then "give me article 'x'".

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