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Created November 12, 2010 19:10
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Look up a word in Wiktionary via MediaWiki API and show the Wiktionary page
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wiktionarylookup.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var baseURL = 'http://en.wiktionary.org';
function showPage(page,text) {
var sourceurl = baseURL + '/wiki/' + page;
$('#pagetitle').text(page);
$('#wikiInfo').html(text);
$('#sourceurl').attr('href',sourceurl);
$('#licenseinfo').show();
// now you can modify content of #wikiInfo as you like
$('#wikiInfo').find('a:not(.references a):not(.extiw):not([href^="#"])').attr('href',
function() { return baseURL + $(this).attr('href');
});
// ...
}
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#pagetitle').hide();
$('#word').change(function() {
var page = this.value;
$('#wikiInfo').html('...please wait...');
$.getJSON(baseURL+'/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text|revid|displaytitle&callback=?&page='+page,
function(json) {
if(json.parse.revid > 0) {
showPage(page,json.parse.text['*']);
} else {
$('#wikiInfo').html('word not found');
$('#licenseinfo').hide();
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
Lookup a word: <input type="text" id="word" />
<h1 id='pagetitle'></h1>
<div id="wikiInfo"></div>
<div id="licenseinfo" style="font-size:small; display:none;">
Modified original content <a id='sourceurl'>from Wiktionary</a>.
Text available under <a href="http:Content is available under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License</a>.
</div>
</body>
</html>
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