From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: idea: Module to automatically extract and insert information from Wikipedia
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:40:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111112164008.GA5922@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111112163123.GA1225@orcus.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 05:31:23PM +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> (Beware that processing wiki text from WP is extremely
> complicated due to WP’s using special plugins (“templates” and
> stuff). So the only way to make sure that a parser accept any
> well formed WP page would be to include all those plugins. Which
> would entail rewriting the PHP code in Lua for use as a context
> script. And then you’d have to decide for every plugin what its
> output should look like in Context.[0] If you have the time ...)
I think scraping the MediaWiki-generated HTML would be simpler.
Regards,
Khaled
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-12 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-12 15:19 Paul Menzel
2011-11-12 16:31 ` Philipp Gesang
2011-11-12 16:40 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-11-12 17:11 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-13 6:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
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