[Openstreetmap] Linking in Wikipedia

[Nick Whitelegg]

Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>@vr.ucl.ac.uk on 19/07/2005 16:54:42

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>Every Wikipedia page has an "edit" tab that brings up the source
>wikitext in an HTML form textarea, with a save button underneath.
>The exception is pages that are write protected, where the tab
>instead reads "view source" and there is no save button.  But the
>wikitext source in the textarea is the same.

Thanks, that's the sort of thing I was looking for :-) A bit inelegant, as
you're requesting an edit but not not actually editing the page, but in the
absence of an XML "feed" back from Wikipedia it'll do nicely.

Still think that supplying articles as XML would be very elegant from a
"web service" point of view, allowing other websites and client apps to
display and search Wikipedia information. Isn't this what the whole
excitement around Web Services revolved around?

Nick