Simon Willison’s Weblog

MediaWiki API. Wikipedia’s best kept secret?

# 26th April 2008, 6:47 pm / api, mediawiki, wikipedia

wikimarkup (via) “MediaWiki markup in Python”. I’ve always suspected that MediaWiki was like Perl; the only thing that can parse MediaWiki is MediaWiki. Not sure how faithful this Python port is but I’d love my theory to be proved wrong.

# 9th September 2007, 12:33 am / cursegaming, david-cramer, mediawiki, perl, python, wiki, wikimarkup

Discourse DB. A collaborative effort to collect the opinions of the world’s journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues, powered by Semantic MediaWiki so there’s metadata coming out of its ears.

# 12th April 2007, 4:38 pm / discoursedb, mediawiki, oxfordgeeknight2, politics, semanticmediawiki

Quercus: PHP in Java (via) A “fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language”, built to run on top of Resin. Claims to be compatibly with MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Gallery2 and DocuWiki.

# 12th April 2007, 4:25 pm / docuwiki, drupal, gallery2, java, mediawiki, php, quercus, resin, wordpress