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Wikimedia and KDE Cooperation Announced
eean writes "As reported by KDE Dot News, today Jimmy Wales, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced the beginning of a cooperation between Wikimedia and the KDE project at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. As the first applications, like the media player amaroK,
start to integrate Wikipedia content the idea is to create a webservice
API to access the information from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia or Wiktionary."
I use Trillian as an IM client and it does something similar to this. I get underlined links with more information from Wikimedia if words in the message match an existing wiki topic. I think it is pretty cool.
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"/me gets started on the Rhythmbox patches."
Then quickly discovers it already does this using Allmusic
> Wouldn't it be a better use of resources to incorporate this into a browser or word processor?
AbiWord has already done for some time.
> I already know who sang the song - they're my legal copies
Yes, but this isn't about looking up the song somehow to see who sang it (try MusicBrainz for that). It's about looking up the band to read about their history or other news. (Wikipedia does have articles on a surprising number of bands.) And nothing says that amaroK (not Amarock) would insist on popping up a Konqueror window with the results from every new song -- lots of features can be disabled as a preference, or not even compiled in in the first place. (In the same way that you'd only want your word processor to do this with words you highlight instead of *every* word you type.)
And of course there's already a list of other KDE stuff that could integrate this to benefit from information that's already been collected, instead of duplicating information on stars and chemical elements and countries (for instance).
So it's *already* been incorporated into a browser *and* word processor (there's a search plugin for Firefox); why not add it to amaroK and Kalzium and KStars and.... ?
/me compiled the Amarok beta earlier today.
:-)
It doesn't do the Wikipedia lookup unless you ask it to - normal operation is the same as ever. It works very nicely
I suppose that Microsoft will copy this idea by linking their desktop services with Encarta.
Indeed, I would be very hesistant to trust their results. While Wikipedia's veracity has often been questioned, at least it is a public effort with the input of hundreds of thousands of people. Encarta, on the other hand, is a corporate effort without the public involvement. The risk of corporate nogoodery is far greater.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Though it's still only alpha or beta quality it does does a WikiPedia-lookup plugin that works rather well.
l uginMatrix
http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/P
can be found here.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
It's called Knowledge.
Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively.
They were removed just to give a more clean interface. There's an icon to open the page in a web browser if you want to edit. amaroK is a media player, we wanted to avoid turning it into a full-blown web browser. :)