The DBPedia dataset "Images" has mappings from wikipedia ids to the actual URL where the image can be downloaded.
Example: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/%22Buzz%21%21%22_The_Movie> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/depiction> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/z_BTM.jpg/200px-z_BTM.jpg> . However, many of the images have moved around and no longer exist. What is the proper way if I want to download (and locally) cache all (or at least a large number of) images from Wikipedia? I have downloaded the full Wikipedia dump "enwiki-20080103-pages-articles.xml.bz2" which do contain all image names (for example, [[Image:Anarchy-symbol.svg|....]]"). But that piece does not give me the actual URL to the image? What is the proper way to download all images? I could always call "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anarchy-symbol.svg"; for each image and from there get the actual URL (which in this case happens to be "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Anarchy-symbol.svg/256px-Anarchy-symbol.svg.png";) and download that image from the URL. This would require two calls to Wikipedia for each image I want to download (one to get the URL, and another to get the image). Is there anyway I can do this without putting such stress to their servers? It would be good if at least there was a way to get all URLs automatically so I do not have to do two calls but only one call per image. I have by the way downloaded the "enwiki-20080103-image.sql.gz" dataset, but it only contains meta data about the images, not the URLs so I can fetch them. Since DBPedias "Image" dataset contains all URLs I assume there is someway to obtain all the URLs in a batch. Or has the DBPedia team also fetched the URLs by doing one call per image to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:XXXXXX";? Thanks /Omid ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
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