# Plugin for displaying wikipedia content **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 13, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198 "2009-06-13T18:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198/1 "2009-06-13T18:22:59Z")
Is there a plugin for displaying wikipedia content? looked around but just could not find one. thanks ---
**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198/2 "2009-06-14T11:35:40Z")
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](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)… –Matt J. On Jun 13, 12:22 pm, “tashfeen.ekram” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198/3 "2009-06-14T17:46:15Z")
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](http://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.](http://github.com/marnen/rookie) . ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > –Matt J. ---
**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198/4 "2009-06-14T20:01:53Z")
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 \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > project of mine. > > > –Matt J. > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Hemali C. Complitech Solutions ([www.complitech.net](http://www.complitech.net)) ---
**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198/5 "2009-06-14T20:12:55Z")
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](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-displaying-wikipedia-content/170198/6 "2009-06-14T20:49:07Z")
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](http://www.complitech.net)) On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > ## Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > –