On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:24:08 +0200, Daan Kuijsten <[email protected]> 
wrote:

Querying specific (structured) data from Wikipedia is still very difficult in 
my opinion. My suggestion is that every paragraph, image, link and table get a 
unique identifiable number. This way Wikipedia gets more machine readable.

You want Semantic MediaWiki[1] then (which the Wikipedias don't use) or 
Wikidata[2], which is one of Wikipedia's sister projects and has been growing 
very fast. Wikipedia was never intended to be machine-readable in the way you 
propose (although it does provide access to MediaWiki's awesome API).

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/

--
Matma Rex

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