[erlang-questions] wkipedia rendering engine

[Jan Lehnardt]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 13:23, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> Is there a REST interface so that I can retreive the latest version of
> the MetaWiki markup for a specific page with, for example,
> a wget command.

You can get bulk dumps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get 
...

Why would you do individual scraping? In order to keep up to date with
changes that happened between the last dump and now()?

Cheers
Jan
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> Has anybody made an erlang interface to scrape individual pages from
> the wikipedia - or to bulk convert the entire
> wikipedia to erlang terms :-)
>
> /Joe
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED>  
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was at the erlang exchange and heard the *magnificant*  talk
>>
>> "Building a transactional distributed data store with Erlang", by
>> Alexander Reinefeld.
>>
>> I'll be blogging this as soon as I have the URL of the video of the  
>> talk.
>>
>> (in advance of this there was talk at the google conference on  
>> scalability
>>
>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6526287646296437003&q=erlang+scalable&ei=cZ9oSLiDNIiCiwLL9fGwCA&hl=en
>>
>> oh and they also seem to have won the SCALE 2008 prize at the
>> CCGrid conferense in Lyon but there is zero publicity about this  
>> AFAICS
>> )
>>
>> We (collectively) promised to help Alexander - I promised to  
>> provide him with a
>> rendering engine (in Erlang) for the wikipedia markup language.
>>
>> Before I start hacking has anybody done this before?
>>
>> /Joe Armstrong
>>
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