Comments on: Wikipedia API?

By: Maria Grineva

Maria Grineva — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:45:53 +0000

Take a look at WikiXMLDB

http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/

It provides a way to query Wikipedia in XQuery.

Wikipedia dump was parsed into XML and loaded into Sedna XML database. Now you have the flexibility and power of XQuery applied to rich Wikipedia content!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:17:13 +0000

Neil: yes, Wikipedia is powered by (and owned by) MediaWiki. I think they started it all, the whole wiki thing; or at least popularised it.

Have you tried their API and seeing if it works for Wikipedia?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:19:57 +0000

Is Wikipedia powered by MediaWiki software?

By: Ajitesh

Ajitesh — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:59:27 +0000

Thats actually prove to be a very useful thing to have wiki apis. Wiki must also move to have readily available APIs similar to facebook.

By: anony

anony — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:27:27 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API/User_Manual

hth

By: Jake Lockley

Jake Lockley — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:26:35 +0000

I think what you are looking for is Freebase. http://www.freebase.com

By: Tux

Tux — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:36:16 +0000

I have a Simple Wikipedia API I created at my site, see if it works for you. http://www.killertux.com/node/44

By: zaki mirza

zaki mirza — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:38:31 +0000

Hey,

We recently thought of some ideas like you have to work with something like a wikipedia API to build apps and services. I wonder why one doesnt exist. Are you working on this still? can you share with me? drop in at my blog.

By: Sourabh Niyogi

Sourabh Niyogi — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:03:21 +0000

We’ve put a rudimentary API together that might help you in your project:

http://www.ontok.com/wikipedia
http://www.ontok.com/wiki/index.php/Wikipedia