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[Pitaridis Aristotelis]

There is a free encyclopedia called wikipedia
(http://wikimediafoundation.org/). Does anyone knows how to use it in order
to get various articles for diplaying them in my application?

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"Pitaridis Aristotelis" <pitaridis@hotm ail.comwrote in
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There is a free encyclopedia called wikipedia
(http://wikimediafoundation.org/). Does anyone knows how to use it in
order to get various articles for diplaying them in my application?

If you have .NET 2.0, you can use the web browser control to fetch web
pages.

In .NET 1.1 you'll have to use a wrapper class to access web pages.

Wikipedia also provides content in XML files ... so you could render the
content using the XML files too.

[Pitaridis Aristotelis]

Re: wikipedia

Both ways are very interesting. Where can I find information about this,
especially for the XML way???

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>There is a free encyclopedia called wikipedia
>(http://wikimediafoundation.org/). Does anyone knows how to use it in
>order to get various articles for diplaying them in my application?

>
>
If you have .NET 2.0, you can use the web browser control to fetch web
pages.
>
In .NET 1.1 you'll have to use a wrapper class to access web pages.
>
Wikipedia also provides content in XML files ... so you could render the
content using the XML files too.

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"Pitaridis Aristotelis" <pitaridis@hotm ail.comwrote in
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Both ways are very interesting. Where can I find information about this,
especially for the XML way???

AFAIK, Wikipedia provides data in XML files which are dumped daily? They're
massive - couple gigabytes.

There is also a per page export utilty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/

I'm sure Wikipedia has other "hidden" APIs too :-)

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"Pitaridis Aristotelis" <pitaridis@hotm ail.comwrote in
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>Both ways are very interesting. Where can I find information about
>this, especially for the XML way???

>
AFAIK, Wikipedia provides data in XML files which are dumped daily?
They're massive - couple gigabytes.
>
There is also a per page export utilty:
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/

>
I'm sure Wikipedia has other "hidden" APIs too :-)

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Export

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

http://download.wikimedia.org/

[Pitaridis Aristotelis]

Re: wikipedia

I found a way to get the xml result, but I have no idea about xml. Can
someone write a function which will get only the text which contains the
article?
Thanks

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>"Pitaridis Aristotelis" <pitaridis@hotm ail.comwrote in
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>>Both ways are very interesting. Where can I find information about
>>this, especially for the XML way???

>>
>AFAIK, Wikipedia provides data in XML files which are dumped daily?
>They're massive - couple gigabytes.
>>
>There is also a per page export utilty:
>>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/
>>
>I'm sure Wikipedia has other "hidden" APIs too :-)

>
>
More info here:
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Export

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

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http://download.wikimedia.org/

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I found a way to get the xml result, but I have no idea about xml. Can
someone write a function which will get only the text which contains the
article?
Thanks

Yes. Take a look at System.XML namespace.

[Pitaridis Aristotelis]

Re: wikipedia

I have used the following code but it does not work

Doc.Load("http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Special:Export/test")
If Doc.SelectNodes ("/mediawiki/page/revision/text").Count 0 Then
Dim output As String =
Doc.SelectNodes ("/mediawiki/page/revision/text").Item(0). InnerText
End If

The structure of the xml file is like this

<mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.o rg/xml/export-0.3/"
xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocat ion="http://www.mediawiki.o rg/xml/export-0.3.xsd"
version="0.3" xml:lang="en">
<siteinfo>
<sitename>Wikip edia</sitename>
<base>http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Main_Page</base>
<generator>Medi aWiki 1.9alpha</generator>
<case>first-letter</case>
<namespaces>
<namespace key="-2">Media</namespace>
<namespace key="-1">Special</namespace>
<namespace key="0" />
<namespace key="1">Talk</namespace>
<namespace key="2">User</namespace>
<namespace key="3">User talk</namespace>
<namespace key="4">Wikiped ia</namespace>
<namespace key="5">Wikiped ia talk</namespace>
<namespace key="6">Image</namespace>
<namespace key="7">Image talk</namespace>
<namespace key="8">MediaWi ki</namespace>
<namespace key="9">MediaWi ki talk</namespace>
<namespace key="10">Templa te</namespace>
<namespace key="11">Templa te talk</namespace>
<namespace key="12">Help</namespace>
<namespace key="13">Help talk</namespace>
<namespace key="14">Catego ry</namespace>
<namespace key="15">Catego ry talk</namespace>
<namespace key="100">Porta l</namespace>
<namespace key="101">Porta l talk</namespace>
</namespaces>
</siteinfo>
<page>
<title>Play</title>
<id>22962</id>
<revision>
<id>79448292</id>
<timestamp>20 06-10-04T13:00:19Z</timestamp>
<contributor>
<username>JonHa rder</username>
<id>629503</id>
</contributor>
<comment>revert : not seeing why this article should be exempt from citing
sources.</comment>
<text xml:space="pres erve">XXXXXX this is the part that I want to get
XXXXXX</text>
</revision>
</page>
</mediawiki>

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"Pitaridis Aristotelis" <pitaridis@hotm ail.comwrote in
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>I found a way to get the xml result, but I have no idea about xml. Can
>someone write a function which will get only the text which contains the
>article?
>Thanks

>
>
Yes. Take a look at System.XML namespace.