Karlheinz Toni wrote:
what possibilities do I have to get the plain text of
a page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=raw
if you want the "correct" but uncommon and usually unsupported
content-type of text/x-wiki; or
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=raw&cty…
if you want the "hacky" but more useful text/css which makes it display
as plain text in browsers.