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1. Sourabh Niyogi
   Posted January 26, 2006 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

   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

2. zaki mirza
   Posted February 13, 2007 at 11:38 am | Permalink

   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.

3. Tux
   Posted March 5, 2007 at 3:36 am | Permalink

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

4. Jake Lockley
   Posted July 19, 2007 at 8:26 pm | Permalink

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

5. anony
   Posted July 20, 2007 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

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

   hth

6. Ajitesh
   Posted July 25, 2007 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

   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.

7. Neil
   Posted November 9, 2007 at 6:19 pm | Permalink

   Is Wikipedia powered by MediaWiki software?

8. Chris
   Posted March 11, 2008 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

   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

9. Maria Grineva
   Posted April 16, 2008 at 4:45 am | Permalink

   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!

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