Free alizee wikipedia software for linux

Wikipedia API is a simple API to embed Wikipedia content dynamically on a Web site.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia in which the user community is encouraged to submit information for its entries. Wikipedia is unique in that it is free to the public, the content is fairly well moderated, and its content is licensed under the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License); therefore, all of its text can be copied, modified, and used any way you see fit.

The only stipulation to using its text, is that the names of the original authors must remain intact. KillerTux.com is currently embedding some of the relevant entries in its own site and has decided to make the API open for public use. It is a simple implementation and should be easy to use. If you are a webmaster and would like to use KillerTux.coms Wikipedia API, this is the place to learn how to do it.

What is an API

An API is an application programming interface with which external applications can communicate with. The syntax and usage of the API dictates the type of data, format, and other specifics of the information to be exchanged. In this case, the API is a simple call to KillerTux.coms web server via the HTTP protocol.

Wikipedia API usage

The URL for the API is "http://scrapers.killertux.com/wikipedia-api.php". It uses the get request method and only has 3 parameters. These parameters are as follows:

wikititle=
wikiformat=[html | text]
wikiimages=[yes | no ]

The wikititle value is the name of the Wikipedia entry you are looking for, in Wikipedias variable entry. This can be found by going to Wikipedia.org and finding an entry. The name is the last part of the URL. For instance, the Wikipedia entry for "Computer Program" is "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Program". Notice the space is an underscore in the URL. Defining the wikititle value for this API would look like this: wikititle=Computer_Program. This value must be specified. A sample API call would be "http://scrapers.killertux.com/wikipedia-api.php?wikititle=Computer_Program". The wikiformat value currently has two possible values: html and text. html is the default if no value is specified. If you use HTML format, it is recommended that a style sheet be used, although it may not be necessary.

A sample CSS is provided here. The text format option strips all HTML code from the document and returns plain text formatted at 80 characters per column. A sample API call would be "http://scrapers.killertux.com/wikipedia-api.php?wikititle=Computer_Program&wikiformat=html". The wikiimages value is only valid for HTML format; images for the text format are disabled. Image source locations are preserved and images are loaded from Wikipedia, not KillerTux.com. If wikiimages=no is selected, all images and captions will be striped from the document, while other HTML code should remain intact such as links to other articles. A sample API call would be "http://scrapers.killertux.com/wikipedia-api.php?wikititle=Computer_Program&wikiimages=no".

MediaWiki is a powerful wiki engine originally developed for the Wikipedia project and now deployed on many sites around the world. This JumpBox includes MediaWiki version 1.9.3.

A JumpBox is a virtual appliance that bundles a server based application along with all of its dependancies (database, operating system, libraries and management interface) into a single pre-configured unit. This makes deploying that application drop dead simple and gives you a working application in minutes for what would normally take hours.

WHY USE A JUMPBOX

Its Simple

Open Source applications are great. The applications are powerful, inexpensive and get the job done. But installing and configuring those applications can be a pain. A JumpBox delivers Open Source applications in a way that makes them simple to try, run and operate.

Its Quick

Actually downloading a JumpBox will take the most time. Once thats done, youre just a few minutes from having a working application that can serve multiple users.

Its Portable

A JumpBox collects the application, application dependancies and all application data into a single bundle that can easily be moved from one computer to another. This allows you to start running the application on your desktop and then as usage grows move it to a server without needing to reinstall or reconfigure. Plus with support for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux you can even move the application between platforms with little effort.

Its Safe

Manually installing Open Source applications not only takes a lot of time and effort, but when youre done its still left to you to figure out how to protect the data the application manages. With a JumpBox its easy to add automatic backups of the entire state of the application.

Its Virtual

A JumpBox application is a virtual appliance that bundles the open source application and all its runtime dependancies into a single package that runs on top of virtualization software from VMWare, Parallels or Xen. This means all JumpBox applications automatically gain the benefits of traditional server virtualization and can be dropped into existing virtualization infrastructure when available.

Its Comfortable

JumpBox provides a consistent runtime environment for all applications that we bundle. The applications may differ considerably, but their installation and operation will be familiar no matter which JumpBox you choose.

Listen is a pyGTK client for the XMMS2 music daemon frontend.
Main features:
- Playlist editor with support repeat, shuffle, sort
- Search in entire media library
- Some utilitie to view information about artist or album provided by wikipedia
- View lyrics fo a song
- A customisable OSD (thanks to project Quodlibet)
- Automatic download cover
- Partial IPOD support (read and play only)
- Drag and drop support :
- From the library to current playlist or saved playlist
- From the playlist to a saved playlist
- From Nautilus to the playlist
- From library or playlist to the Nautilus
- From library or playlist to other GNOME applications
- Export playlist

Convert::Wiki is a Perl module that can convert HTML/POD/txt from/to Wiki code.

SYNOPSIS

use Convert::Wiki;

my $wiki = Convert::Wiki->new();

$wiki->from_txt ( $txt );
die ("Error: " . $wiki->error()) if $wiki->error;
print $wiki->as_wiki();

$wiki->from_html ( $html );
die ("Error: " . $wiki->error()) if $wiki->error;
print $wiki->as_wiki();

# clear the object manually
$wiki->clear();
$wiki->add_txt ( $txt );
die ("Error: " . $wiki->error()) if $wiki->error;
print $wiki->as_wiki();

Convert::Wiki converts from various formats to various Wiki formats.
Input can come as HTML, POD or plain TXT (like it is written in many READMEs). The data will be converted to an internal, node based format and can then be converted to Wikicode as used by many wikis like the Wikipedia.

Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::Mediawiki is a Mediawiki-style formatter for Wiki::Toolkit.

SYNOPSIS

This package implements a formatter for the Wiki::Toolkit module which attempts to duplicate the behavior of the Mediawiki application (a set of PHP scripts used by Wikipedia and friends).

use Wiki::Toolkit
use Wiki::Toolkit::Store::Mediawiki;
use Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::Mediawiki;

my $store = Wiki::Toolkit::Store::Mediawiki->new ( ... );
# See below for parameter details.
my $formatter = Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::Mediawiki->new (%config,
store => $store);
my $wiki = Wiki::Toolkit->new (store => $store,
formatter => $formatter);

METHODS

new
my $store = Wiki::Toolkit::Store::Mediawiki->new ( ... );
my $formatter = Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::Mediawiki->new
(allowed_tags => [# HTML
qw(b big blockquote br caption center cite code dd
div dl dt em font h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 hr i li ol p
pre rb rp rt ruby s small strike strong sub sup
table td th tr tt u ul var),
# MediaWiki Specific
qw(nowiki),],
allowed_attrs => [qw(title align lang dir width height bgcolor),
qw(clear), # BR
qw(noshade), # HR
qw(cite), # BLOCKQUOTE, Q
qw(size face color), # FONT
# For various lists, mostly deprecated but
# safe
qw(type start value compact),
# Tables
qw(summary width border frame rules
cellspacing cellpadding valign char
charoff colgroup col span abbr axis
headers scope rowspan colspan),
qw(id class name style), # For CSS
],
node_prefix => ,
store => $store);

Parameters will default to the values above, with the exception of store, which is a required argument without a default. store does not have to be of type Wiki::Toolkit::Store::Mediawiki.
format

my $html = $formatter->format ($content);

Escapes any tags which werent specified as allowed on creation, then interpolates any macros, then calls Text::WikiFormat::format (with the specialized Mediawiki config) to translate the raw Wiki language supplied into HTML.

find_internal_links

my @links_to = $formatter->find_internal_links ($content);

Returns a list of all nodes that the supplied content links to.

Quizdrill is a learning-by-testing program to learn quickly, mostly memorizing tasks like vocabulary. The project supports simple quiz, multiple choice as well as flashcard testing. Although still quite immature, Quizdrill asks questions which have been answered right more often then others, less often to improve learning efficiency.

Quizzes can be easily created by edition simple text files or automatically built from Infobox-style templates of Wikipedia dumps (or other MediaWikis and even Semantic MediaWikis). Quizdrill tries to be as easy to use as possible.

Quizdrill should run on Linux, Mac/OSX, Unixes and Window. Install includes more information. For bug reports and feature requests see the Quizdrill project page. Quizdrill is released under the GNU GPL either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.