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Re:Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit by cldellow on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:18PM (#28235736)
Even just being able to download a tarball of the HTML of the infoboxes would be really powerful, setting aside the difficulty of, say, translating them into a consistent JSON format.

That plus a few other key things (categories, opening paragraph, redirects, pageview data) enable a lot of powerful analysis.

That actually might be kind of a neat thing to publish. Hmmmm.

Re:Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit by jancsika on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:19PM (#28239503)
Better yet-- what is the set of wikipedia articles which have an info box that cannot be sensibly interpreted as key/value pairs where the key is a simple string?