Wikipedia Wikticonary

[Wesley B]

I've continued to look into wikipedia options more, and the current wikipedia database, if I remember correctly, is around 32 gigabytes.

Definately too large for me to host locally

Wikitionary is quite a bit smaller. Not sure if the output would be as nice.

My blog is very low volume, and if anyone knew how this worked in trillian, I'd still be very interested in giving it a try on my blog.

What would the code look like?

Wesley B

[MidNiteRaver]

Is it possible to download a database from wikipedia? I could get along just fine hosting the data locally and giving up having real-time access to the latest definitions and entries.

No it's (practically) not. Sorry. You could manually enter those, or why not just use the abbr tag?

Example (from my own blog);

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As I'm living in Sweden, iTunes is not available to me. This sucks ofcourse, but then again, I never really cared for <abbr title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</abbr> low-bitrate music.

Is manually entering, but on mouseover the title pops up if the user is using a decent browser (not IE).

This works for the words that you rarely type with small definitions. I have a medical based site which will be accessed by laypersons and professionals.

I think a module which allows you to create your own library linked to keywords would be the best was to go.

[Wesley B]

I'm more interested in the entertainment value, and wouldn't really care to build my own mini-encylcopedia.

So I'd like to get an idea on how complicated code similar to what trillian uses would be, and get the data straight from wikipedia.

Wesley B

[garvinhicking]

Creating an own dictionary is easy using the "Content Rewrite" plugin. Search the forum for detailed instructions on using it, but it allows you to rewrite words like "s9y" with "<a href="www.s9y.org" title="Serendipity">s9y</a>". And other stuff.

Regards,
Garvin

[RobA]

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Someone asked, details are here:http://ffaat.pointclark.net/blog/archives/22-Glossary-Reloaded.html

This plugin takes a set of definitions/glossary words and displays them when a user hovers over:


Currently it is set up on my site with the following search terms/definitions:

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regexp : A regexp is a Unix Regular Expression; ie a string for pattern matching.
html  : HyperText Markup Language.
plugin: A plugin is a program written by someone that is integrated into another application.
alphanumeric : Consisting of letters and/or numbers, but not other symbols or punctuation marks.

This does slow down my blog rendering, but I have turned it back on by request (for awhile at least). I haven't tested it with the simple cache plugin, but that may speed it up by not having to do all the regexp matching.

This was done for fun, so hopefully someong else will get some use out of it.

A direct download is here: http://ffaat.pointclark.net/blog/uploads/Files/serendipity_event_glossary.zip

-Rob A>