Plugin for displaying wikipedia content

Rails
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Is there a plugin for displaying wikipedia content?

looked around but just could not find one.

thanks

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There was some discussion on the rails-wiki list about this a while
back; the conclusion was the Wikipedia markup is both incompletely
documented AND incredibly tricky to parse. That’s why they picked
another system for wiki.rubyonrails.org…

–Matt J.

On Jun 13, 12:22 pm, “tashfeen.ekram” [email protected]

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Matt J. wrote:

There was some discussion on the rails-wiki list about this a while
back; the conclusion was the Wikipedia markup is both incompletely
documented AND incredibly tricky to parse. That’s why they picked
another system for wiki.rubyonrails.org…

And given what they came up with, I’m really unimpressed. MediaWiki
markup is probably the most familiar wiki syntax to most end-users, so
I’m trying to keep it for a wiki feature I’m going to be adding to a
project of mine.

I’ve started writing a Treetop-based parser for MediaWiki markup and
have found it surprisingly simple (at least at this early stage).
Contributions are welcome; see GitHub - marnen/rookie: A Ruby parser for MediaWiki markup. .

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

–Matt J.

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Hi,

You can use MediaCloth.Its a nice Mediawiki parser.You feed it with a
media
wiki syntax and it’s supposed to return a correct html.
It works, it’s not perfect but it works.

Thanks,

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <
[email protected]> wrote:

project of mine.

–Matt J.

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Hemali C.
Complitech Solutions
(www.complitech.net)

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Hemali C. wrote:

Hi,

You can use MediaCloth.Its a nice Mediawiki parser.

Is MediaCloth actually usable? I thought it wasn’t mature enough yet.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Yes thats right its not that mature yet but I have tried to parse
basic Mediawiki tags (external link,internal link,image & many more…).
That worked for me with Media Cloth.

Thanks,
Hemali C.
Complitech Solutions
(www.complitech.net)

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <
[email protected]> wrote:

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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