Thursday·02·March·2006
Wikipedia at your fingertips //at 02:07 //by abe
Via nion’s blog I got notice of two other blog entries of two people of whom each wrote a shell script to display Wikipedia articles as plain text in a pager.
While the first one called wiki2 queries Google and fetches then the first Wikipedia hit there, the second one (funnily just called wiki) queries Wikipedia directly, supports different Wikipedia languages and has a lot of other nice features.
Since the idea and especially the second script definitely belongs to the group of programs you never thought about, but, when you found it, you knew, you missed it until now, I decided to use it as the first program, I want to package for the Debian project to be included in the next release which will be called Etch.
Because of “wiki” being a quite ambigous name, I plan to name the package wikipedia2text.
Tagged as: Hacks, Lynx, Open Source, Other Blogs, Shell, Text Mode, Wikipedia
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