wikipedia-api

wikipedia bots and captcha

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 let me fill captcha in? ...

How does Wikipedia avoid duplicate entries?

How can websites as big as Wikipedia sort duplicated entries out? I need to know the exact procedure from the moment that user creates the duplicate entry and so on. If you don't know it but you know a method please send it. ----update---- Suppose there is wikipedia.com/horse and somebody afterward creates wikipedia.com/the_horse this...

Link terms on page to Wikipedia articles in pure JavaScript

While browsing I came across this blog post about using the Wikipedia API from JavaScript, to link a single search term to it's definition. At the end of the blog post the author mentions possible extensions including: A plugin which auto links terms to Wikipedia articles. This fits the bill perfectly for a project requirement I'm...

Wikipedia embedded in WinForms App Tutorial

Can anyone post a tutorial here on how to show a Wikipedia article in a .NET WinForms application (C# or VB)? If the article can be placed in a string it suffices, there`s no need to put it on any control. I found some information on Wikipedia's API. After reading it, I added the reference to web service but can`t find a way to make thi...

Wikipedia API: list=alllinks confusion

I'm doing a research project for the summer and I've got to use get some data from Wikipedia, store it and then do some analysis on it. I'm using the Wikipedia API to gather the data and I've got that down pretty well. What my questions is in regards to the links-alllinks option in the API doc here After reading the description, both th...

MediaWiki api - get last changes

How can i get the list of all pages, that were changed since some date using mediawiki api? EDIT: I have already found this query:) F.e. for wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rclimit=500&rcnamespace=0 ...

MediaWiki renderer in Java/Javascript supporting mathematical symbols and formulas.

I need a renderer/parser in Javascript or Java for MediaWiki syntax which supports mathematical symbols and formulas. ...

Does the wikipedia api support searches for a specific template?

Is it possible to query the wikipedia API for articles that contain a specific Template? The docs at: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php do not describe any action that would filter search results to pages that contain a template. Specifically, I am after pages that contain Template:Persondata. After that, I am hoping to be able to retrie...