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Wikipedia export

Anytime thought about retrieving unparsed pages from Wikipedia easily? I don’t, but today I stumbled across a link which started me thinking about this.

The MediaWiki engine has Special pages which provide functions, such as the Special:Export. As a shortcut, one can append a page name after a trailing slash to get the given page in XML format: here is the source of the MPlayer page. The Meta-Wiki (which has the whole description of the engine) has a page called Help:Export, you can read more about this there.

Appeared on 22 March 2006, 10:30 | Add to del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, newsvine | View blog reactions

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