Pywikipediabot provides this functionality under a free license.
/BrianOn 7/2/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com > wrote:Why don't you release this under a free license so that the Wikimedia
Foundation could use it?
On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Torsten Zesch wrote:
>
> JWPL - Java Wikipedia Library
>
> version 0.3 beta is now available
>
> http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL
>
>
> INTRODUCTION
>
> Lately, Wikipedia has been recognized as a promising lexical
> semantic resource. We present JWPL, a free Java-based Wikipedia
> application programming interface, that enables the use of
> Wikipedia as a NLP resource by providing efficient programmatic
> access to the knowledge therein.
>
>
> FUNCTIONALITY
>
> Fast access to:
> * article text
> * categories
> * redirects
> * links between articles (ingoing and outgoing).
>
> Discrimination between
> * article pages
> * disambiguation pages
> * redirect pages.
>
> Available languages:
> * English
> * German
> * Czech
> * Ukrainian
>
> Other languages will be added step by step.
>
>
> DOWNLOAD
>
> JWPL Java library
> http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL
>
> Wikipedia data
> (with database scheme optimized for large-scale NLP tasks)
> ftp://ftp.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/tud/informatik/JWPL_data
>
>
> LICENCE
>
> JWPL is free for non-profit and non-commercial use.
>
>
> ABOUT
>
> JWPL was developed by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
> at Darmstadt University of Technlogy.
>
> http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de
>
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