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I have different types of dates formatting like: 27 - 28 August 663 CE 22 August 1945 19 May May 4 1945 – August 22 1945 5/4/1945 2-7-1232 03-4-1020 1/3/1 (year 1) 09/08/0 (year 0) Note they are all different formats, different order, some have 2 months, some only one, I tried to use moment js with no results, I also tried to use date js yet, no luck. I tried to do some splitting: dates.push({ Time : [] }); function doSelect(text) { return $wikiDOM.find(".infobox th").filter(function() { return $(this).text() === text; }); } dateText = doSelect("Date").siblings('td').text().split(/\s+/g); for

I want to get all the articles names under a category and its sub-categories. Options I'm aware of: Using the Wikipedia API. Does it have such an option?? d/l the dump. Which format would be better for my usage? There is also an option to search in Wikipedia something like incategory:"music" , but I didn't see an option to view that in XML. Please share your thoughts The following resource will help you to download all pages from the category and all its subcategories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CatScan There is also an API available here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

I've been up and down the Wikipedia API , but I can't figure out if there's a nice way to fetch the excerpt of an article (usually the first paragraph). It would be nice to get the HTML formatting of that paragraph, too. The only way I currently see of getting something that resembles a snippet is by performing a fulltext search ( example ), but that's not really what I want (too short). Is there any other way to fetch the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article than barbarically parsing HTML/WikiText? Use this link to get the unparsed intro in xml form "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format

I have a web page that asks the user for a paragraph of text, then performs some operation on it. To demo it to lazy users, I'd like to add an "I feel lucky" button that will grab some random text from Wikipedia and populate the inputs. How can I use Javascript to fetch a sequence of text from a random Wikipedia article? I found some examples of fetching and parsing articles using the Wikipedia API , but they tend to be server side. I'm looking for a solution that runs entirely from the client and doesn't get scuppered by same origin policy . Note random gibberish is not sufficient; I need

I'm trying to find out if there's a wikipedia api (I Think it is related to the mediawiki?). If so, I would like to know how I would tell wikipedia to give me an article about the new york yankees for example. What would the REST url be for this example? All the docs on this subject seem fairly complicated. You really really need to spend some time reading the documentation, as this took me a moment to look and click on the link to fix it. :/ but out of sympathy i'll provide you a link that maybe you can learn to use. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New