Wiki[mp]edia data sources & the MediaWiki API

Presented at Melbourne Hack Weekend, 2009.

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1. Wiki[mp]edia data sources & the MediaWiki API Brianna Laugher for #melhack November 2009
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3. Wikipedia 13M articles total 3M+ articles in English 240+ languages Simple English!
4. {{coord|37|48|49|S|144|57| 47|E|type:city_region:AU-VIC| display=inline,title}} stable.toolserver.org/geohack/ wiki.toolserver.org/view/GeoHack
5. {{Infobox Company |name = Lonely Planet |logo = |type = [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Government-owned company|government-owned]] (subsidiary of [[BBC Worldwide]]) |genre = [[Guide book|Travel guides]] |foundation = 1972 |founder = Tony Wheeler<br /> Maureen Wheeler |location_city = [[Footscray, Victoria]] |location_country = [[Australia]] |location = |origins = |key_people = Matt Goldberg <small>(Global [[CEO]])</small> |area_served = Worldwide |industry = [[Multi media]] |products = Travel [[guidebook, digital applications, online travel community]] |services =
6. Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org Multilingual 5M+ files “Self-created”, PD, Flickr Predominantly photographs, but also diagrams, maps, flags
8. Wiktionary 5M+ entries 170+ languages 13 languages > 100K entries French biggest at 1.5M (English second at 1.4M)
9. JavaScript Wiktionary lookup plugin for third parties: http://bawolff.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing- wiktionary-lookup-now-for.html http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Parsing
10.  Users  Logs  Pages, subpages, talk pages  Links, backlinks  Templates  Categories MediaWiki structure
11. MediaWiki markup The only thing that completely understands it is MediaWiki :(
12. XML download.wikimedia.org OR Amazon Public Data Sets meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Data_dumps Database dumps
13. DBpedia Community project extracting structured data from Wikipedia and making it available Can download data sets or query them online Ontology++ e.g. dbpedia.org/page/Lonely_Planet
14. MediaWiki API mediawiki.org/wiki/API en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php Client libraries!
15. mwclient Python library for accessing MediaWiki APIs
17. toolserver.org Server for community-developed plugins, addons, extensions, stats and hacks – tools Tools often explicitly implements implicit editing community standards (“community API”) Toolserver
18. TemplateTiger toolserver.org/~kolossos/templatetiger/ For a few dozen Wikipedia languages, & Wikimedia Commons Lets you query templates very much like SQL
19. identi.ca/pfctdayelise blaugher@wikimedia.org.au Thanks! Logos and screenshots may be copyright their respective owners Slides are otherwise © Brianna Laugher