In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
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wrote
on Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:39:37 +0000
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Best Open Source Project?
>>
>> Wikipedia takes first, second for Firefox, Ubuntu Linux at 3rd
>>
>> http://www.grupthink.com/topic/821
>>
>
> Wikipedia is not really open-source is it, it's open data or something,
> or do they really mean the actual project itself, rather than the site?
>
I'll admit to some curiosity. Editing an article is easy
enough (though without registration one gets an IP addy
hit in a log somewhere; I'm primarily a "typo fixer" at
this point, the few times I find them). Presumably it's
a heavily modified forum system but there could be a fair
number of complexities in there.
There is a Technical FAQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technical_FAQ
which among other things mentions the ability to download
the entire Wikipedia database. It might be a SQL or XML dump;
the actual software is named MediaWiki.
If one needs an individual page, one possibility is to use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Linux (the
regular page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux).
This is an XML dump, and gives an insight into the guts
of how Wiki stores things. I'm not sure it's a very good
insight but obviously there's a lot going on under the
scenes in Wikipedia/MediaWiki, among them word links.
One might glean more insight by viewing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
which among other things mentions the doublebracket
syntax ([[link]]), points to the official homepage,
from where one might be able to download the software
(from SourceForge) and browse the SVN.
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