Plugin for displaying wikipedia content

rubyonrails-talk
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Is there a plugin for displaying wikipedia content?

looked around but just could not find one.

thanks

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There was some discussion on the rails-wiki list about this a while back; the conclusion was the Wikipedia markup is both incompletely documented AND incredibly tricky to parse. That's why they picked another system for wiki.rubyonrails.org...

--Matt Jones

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Hi,

You can use MediaCloth.Its a nice Mediawiki parser.You feed it with a media wiki syntax and it’s supposed to return a correct html. It works, it’s not perfect but it works.

Thanks,

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Hemali Chauhan wrote:

Hi,

You can use MediaCloth.Its a nice Mediawiki parser.

Is MediaCloth actually usable? I thought it wasn't mature enough yet.

Best,

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Yes thats right its not that mature yet but I have tried to parse basic Mediawiki tags (external link,internal link,image & many more…). That worked for me with Media Cloth.

Thanks,

Hemali Chauhan Complitech Solutions (www.complitech.net)