[dot] KDE and Wikipedia Announce Cooperation

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From: Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de>
Dept: missing-ligature
Date: Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @13:46

KDE and Wikipedia Announce Cooperation
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   Today Jimmy Wales, leader of the Wikimedia Foundation
[http://www.wikimedia.org/], announced the beginning of a cooperation
between Wikimedia and the KDE project
[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/KDE_and_Wikipedia] at LinuxTag
[http://www.linuxtag.org] in Karlsruhe, Germany. As the first
applications like the media player amaroK [http://amarok.kde.org] start
to integrate Wikipedia content the idea is to create a webservice API to
access the information from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia
[http://www.wikipedia.org] or Wiktionary [http://www.wiktionary.org].
There are also plans for a KDE API.
  Wikipedia in amaroK
     The API would allow KDE applications to easily embed Wikimedia
content, data could even be fetched from a local database depending on
your online/offline status. First progress can be seen in Knowledge
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Danimo/Knowledge], a Qt 4 based
offline reader for Wikipedia.

     Jimmy was also searching for people who want to help with the
design of this API, so if you want a good API for your application join
the efforts!