Thanks, Amir.

Do the dumps give very granular-level data for a Wiki entry?

- Ashish

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> MediaWiki::DumpFile has some facilities for this, although they were
> very basic the last time i checked.
>
> Its developer is active and responsive to bug reports, enhancements and
> patches.
>
>
> 2012/3/3 Ashish Mukherjee <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using the following perl modules to extract data from Wikipedia and
> > Wikitravel respectively -
> >
> > - WWW::Wikipedia
> > - MediaWiki::API
> >
> > From both these APIs and also by looking at the MediaWiki APIs, I seem to
> > get the entire chunk of text in the Web Service response. To extract
> > different sections of the Wiki entry, I have to rely on pattern matching
> and
> > regular expressions.
> >
> > Is there a better way to achieve this? Is there some sample code in any
> > language (preferably, perl) which anyone can share, or is there some tool
> > which does this out of the box?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ashish
> >
> >
> >
> >
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