Re: [Foundation-l] Classifying what is on Wikipedia

Questions that affect all Wikipedias are suitable for wikipedia-l.
Research and data-related questions such as this might also be
appropriate for the research list.

Peter D - this is a fascinating question, but this thread may be more
suited to the research list until you find the technical answers you
are looking for.

SJ


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hoi,
> That may be, but such practical things are local issues.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
> On 20 September 2010 21:43, Peter Damian <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Henning Schlottmann" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Classifying what is on Wikipedia
>>
>>
>> > On 20.09.2010 21:19, Peter Damian wrote:
>> >> Following on from my previous posts about trying to classify the scope
>> >> and
>> >> coverage of humanities subjects in Wikipedia, I have a practical
>> >> question:
>> >> is it possible to query the Wikipedia database in such a way as to get a
>> >> list of all articles (current version)?  Even better, with a second,
>> >> larger
>> >> list that indexes each article with a list of categories it belongs to.
>> >
>> > This is not a foundation issue. Please reserve this list for global
>> > affairs of the WMF. Go to the enWP-list with your local stuff.
>>
>> I have just explained in the previous thread why it is a foundation issue.
>> It affects all Wikipedia projects equally.
>>
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