From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: idea: Module to automatically extract and insert information from Wikipedia
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:19:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321111170.3557.31.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
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Dear ConTeXt folks,
just now I thought of the following and I am wondering if there exists
already a solution.
Writing a text which includes people I want to add information about
these peoples as footnotes. The first sentence in a Wikipedia article is
most of the time good enough for that.
A macro `\infofromwikipedia{Donald Knuth}` would be nice which gets the
first sentence of the article and puts an item into the bibliography.
There is even an API to access articles [2]. Besides coding that up I
see the following problems.
1. The output [3] needs to be converted to ConTeXt.
2. An Internet connection would be necessary. But that is just a note
and not a problem.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats#Output
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next reply other threads:[~2011-11-12 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-12 15:19 Paul Menzel [this message]
2011-11-12 16:31 ` Philipp Gesang
2011-11-12 16:40 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-11-12 17:11 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-13 6:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
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