If I have downloaded Wikipedia XML dumps, is there any way of removing all of the internal links from within an XML file?
Thanks
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Wikipedia database dumps and information about using them are located here: Wikipedia:Database download. You should do this instead of writing a script to scrape Wikipedia.
Chad Birch
2009-03-31 23:02:39
Yeah found that, sorry I got my question wrong really! How can I remove the internal links from the xml files?
2009-03-31 23:06:19
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One thing you could do, if you are importing them into a local wiki, is to import all the files you want, then use a robot (eg. pywikipediabot is easy to use) to get rid of all the internal links.
Adrian Archer
2009-04-01 03:29:18
Better yet, if your wiki is going to be used somewhere that you have internet access, you could change all the internal links to [[wikipedia:PageName|PageName]], then they would refer back to their original articles.
Adrian Archer
2009-04-01 03:29:29
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You could do a search and replace in your favorite text editor, replacing [[ and ]] with nothing.
Adrian Archer
2009-04-01 03:31:09
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I would try to use XSLT to transform the XML file into another XML file.
lothar
2009-04-04 00:35:36