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great!
by LMCBoy on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @16:38
This will be really great for the "AstroInfo" articles in KStars. These are short, hyperlinked articles about astronomical concepts. They are currently in the KStars handbook, but I've been thinking for a while I'd like to break them into a separate reader and make it more tightly integrated with the rest of the program.
Some of the AstroInfo articles have already migrated into Wikipedia.
Seems like a good opportunity for two great projects (KDE and Wikimedia) to help each other out.
APIv
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @17:01
If you wish to follow this in the future there's an open bug for external APIs here: vhttp://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208
A great feature would be a point in kontextmenu of the kicker watch that is called "Show this day in history" (or something simmilar). So that konqueror is started and shows the wikipedia entry for the current date in history.
Example: It's the 24.06.2005 (I'm sorry for writing the date this way, but I'm Austrian and don't really know the American or English way :)) Klick on the menu entry and konqueror shows up with the URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/24._Juni
Patrick
"en:SOAP/en:WSDL is probably the best choice since it can deliver semantics (as opposed to en:XML-RPC) and is an accepted industry standard also used by e.g. google"
Please consider REST style web services, which, IMHO, are much easier to use and more powerful. Read this article for quick introduction to REST: http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html
For more info, there is a wiki: http://rest.blueoxen.net/
Translation
by Andre on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @17:07
Hope the translation issue also gets adressed. KDE's translation infrastructure is getting outdated.
Local Wikipedias
by Bram Schoenmakers on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @18:20
I think it would be better if it automatically redirected you to the local Wikipedia, if available, else it should fall back to the English WP.
(P.S. It would be cool to integrate KWorldClock with WP, just click on a country/city/area et voila...)
Mediawiki specific?
by Petteri on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @02:33
Hopefully this will be more broader than just Wikipedia, mayby mediawiki specific? There are so many other good wikis :) For example kdevelop could use http://gpwiki.org/ for help pages when doing game programming etc.
This project sound really exiting can't wait for the new amarok to arrive to Debian.
this is cool
by Bojan on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @09:46
I got nothing really useful to say, other than this is really cool. I think this could add a lot of power and neat features to many applications, and the KDE desktop in general.
...when do we get a Wikilyrics? A Google search shows one with this name, but the site appears to be dead. Wikipedia already has lots of info on albums, it would be nice if it could have lyrics, too.
Would this api be specific to KDE? or can any application use the webservice (like a gtk app, windows app, osx app, etc). It seems to me that this is just a webservice and I am confused as to why kde is involved.
Wikihelp?
by Zot on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @12:33
Could the help system use this?
Obviously, there would need to be a mechanism for storing a local minimal version during install, but then this API could be used to keep the help up to date.
This would also allow the help by way of wiki to include more tips and tricks and such.
A co-operation between the KDE group - makers of a free desktop for Linux - and the Wikimedia Foundation has been announced at the LinuxTag Conference in Karlsruhe. They intend to build a protocol which will make it possible to access Wikimedia project's data from any application, but especially from the KDE suite.

The KDE Group will try to integrate some of the applications from the package with Wikimedia data. For example, AmaroK, media player, will use Wikipedia data to show information about music being played at the moment. Some other applications, including chemical database Kalzium, a database of information about the sky KStars and office suite KOffice will use data from Wikipedia, or from its sister projects.

It will be based on SOAP/WSDL technology, which is already used by the Google API. It could be used on almost every platform and programming environment.

It is also possible to include the Wikipedia archive in some of KDE's CD editions to make it possible to use the data from Wikipedia on machines without an internet connection.