Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Wikipedia-linking "BBC News Online" proxy site

Read about this amazing Wikipedia-linking "BBC News Online" proxy site. Put simply, you can view the BBC News Online content and layout as normal, except for some extra links to Wikipedia articles on acronyms or capitalised phrases in the content!:


"My first project for 8 years aims to demonstrate a tiny fraction of what a more open [BBC] News Online could be.


It's a proxy for the site, that does the following things:

—retrieves a page from News Online, and regexes out 'Capitalised Phrases' and acronyms. It then tests these against a database of wikipedia topic titles. If the phrase is a topic in wikipedia, then it's turned into a hyperlink

—uses the technorati API to add a sidebar of links to blogs referencing the story. Now you can see who's talking about the story from the story itself

—as a bonus, my code breaks that bloody awful ticker. I'm not fixing it.

—because that's how links should be, my links are underlined.

—reduces page bloat by about 10% by stripping acres of whitespace."

4 Comments:

At 8:26 PM, Blogger Shreyas Ubale said...

Try tgis site , it works good!!

http://www.lionhost.org

 
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At 11:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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