Re: XSLT on Wikipedia

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:31 +0000, Andrew Welch wrote:
> If there is an upconversion tool or transform you could mark it up and
> put in an xml database and then do something with it... not sure what
> yet, but as an academic exercise at least it would be quite
> interesting.

This is getting off-topic, but... while I havenbt been doing much
professionally with pointy-brackets lately, I *have* been doing a lot
with Wikipedia.  There is a tool called Wiki2XML which normalizes the
data into an XML representation.

There is also a large database, indexing all the links and
relationships, and including the XML representation of the articles,
which a couple of my cow-orkers have prepared and my employer has
released.

Links to Wiki2XML and the database are at <URL:
http://blog.freebase.com/2008/02/18/mining-knowledge-from-wikipedia-announcing-wex/ >.

~Chris
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