On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Radhika Gaonkar <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am very new to the mediawiki-api . I am planning on using this to > extract geo - information about places . I have been referring to this > tutorial by scraper wiki > https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/12/how-to-scrape-and-parse-wikipedia/ . > Though I am not sure if I should be using this api or the offline dump > Don't scrape the live wiki. You may scrape a dump if you'd like. Note that, if the only "geo information" you need are the coordinates, you can use the API to query them, like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates&titles=Washington,%20D.C . and what is the difference between the two data sets ? > Mainly, the dumps are generated about once per month so they're not completely up-to-date. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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