Subject: ITP: wikipedia2text -- displays Wikipedia articles on the command line Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : wikipedia2text Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Christian Brabandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki * License : Public Domain Description : displays Wikipedia articles on the command line This bash script fetches Wikipedia articles (currently supports English and German) using elinks or lynx -dump, strips off everything not related to the content and displays the content in pager, sends it to standard out, opens the Wikipedia article in a (possibly GUI) browser or just shows the URL of the Wikipedia article. The original script is named "wiki" which seems useful when regarding how fast it's typed, but inappropriate for installing it somewhere system wide, because wiki is a concept and not a short form for wikipedia. So I plan to call script and package "wikipedia2text". License: Public domain License Details: The author wrote in his (German written) blog at http://blog.256bit.org/archives/126-Wikipedia-in-der-Shell.html: Wer's haben will, mag es nehmen und damit tun was auch immer er mag. Which means roughly translated to English: Anyone who wants it can take it and do whatever he wants to do with it. I asked the author by mail if this statement should mean the script is public domain and and he acknowledged it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
