Recent wikipedia

• Query Wikipedia from your terminal

  I refer Wikipedia frequently. I use this BASH function to help me do that from the terminal. For explanation of how this works head over here.
  BASH function

  # wiki

  # eg: wiki India
  # wiki Apple_Inc
  # wiki Anglo_Saxon
  wiki()
  {
  dig +short txt $1.wp.dg.cx
  }

  Example usage

  prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ [...]

  August 23rd, 2009

• Topic extraction using Wikipedia data

  In an earlier article, I mentioned that I was trying to use Wikipedia data to do news article clustering to make it easy for me follow news feeds. I have made some progress. I’ve written an algorithm to produce a list of Wikipedia articles relevant to the input text. Input text [...]

  December 21st, 2007

• Wikipedia Category Graph Generator

  I was in the process of trying to understand the classification schemes available in Wikipedia (categories, lists and navigation maps) when I came across this nifty tool. It is very useful to understand the inter-relationships between Wikipedia categories.
  You can check it out here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/

  November 12th, 2007