[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Adding Wikipedia to OneLook

Sat Sep 21 16:29:48 UTC 2002

I just received this from the maintainer of OneLook, a
meta-search of dictionaries (and some encyclopedias).
Is there any way to produce a flat file of all our
articles? This would also allow Wikipedia to once
again work with Sunir Shah's MetaWiki search.

If you haven't tried OneLook before, give it a spin.
It's fantastic.

http://www.onelook.com/

Stephen G.

--- Doug Beeferman <doug at dougb.com> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:16:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Doug Beeferman <doug at dougb.com>
> To: <canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thanks for your kind feedback on OneLook and sorry
> for the delay in
> responding to you.  I already have some familiarity
> with Wikipedia/Nupedia
> as a user and would love to add its headwords to
> OneLook.  Could you
> assist me in this?  In particular, do you know of a
> flat file that I could
> point OneLook's update engine to that lists
> Wikipedia's headwords (or
> topic names, or however they're called in
> Wiki-land)?
> 
> Running the available SQL files through MySQL to
> dump these headwords on
> every update would be a bit unwieldy for various
> reasons.  One alternative
> would be a script that extracts the headwords from
> the .sql file, but I
> don't want to rewrite this if it's already been
> done.
> 
> (I just spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out
> how to post this
> question on meta.wikipedia.com.  I was defeated. 
> There's probaby
> something I'm missing or too lazy to read...)
> 
> Thanks again for writing.  Are you involved actively
> in Wikipedia's
> maintenance?  If so, good luck with the project --
> it looks like it's
> really taking off!
> 
> Doug
> (a canuck in America)
> 
> 
> ---     add     canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com  
> 2002-09-06 08:51:25     218.150.177.35  Mozilla/5.0
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> 
> I just discovered One-Look and it has quickly found
> a much coveted space
> on my browser's Personal Toolbar. I especially
> appreciate  the lack of
> pop-up ads. Thanks for the great resource!
> 
> 
> I notice you have several encyclopedias in your
> database. I would like to
> suggest an encyclopedia called Wikipedia. It is an
> effort to build a
> complete encyclopedia from scratch, written by
> volunteers and released
> under the GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia
> is one and a half
> years old, and currently has about 40,000 articles,
> many of which are very
> good.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Stephen Gilbert
> 
> 

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