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Wikipedia cross-searching

Postby bwo » Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:04 pm

Sometimes very useful way of translating some phrases not present in dictionaries (e.g. names of organizations or some specialist terms) is to search the term in Wikipedia and then select the language we are interested in to view the coresponding page in this language.

I don't know what Wikipedia API allows to do, but it would be great if GoldenDict could automate this process. I mean, one should be able to add something like, e.g. "Wikipedia English->Polish". After entering some English term it should display the corresponding page for this term from the Polish Wikipedia.

What do you think?
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Re: Wikipedia cross-searching

Postby ikm » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:02 pm

That was already planned to be implemented someday. Which day would that be -- don't know. Everyone's welcome to hack, though.
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Re: Wikipedia cross-searching

Postby bwo » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:31 pm

Great:). So i'm waiting patiently. Unfortunatelly I do not code, so cannot help:(

And by the way, thank you for this wonderful app!:)
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Re: Wikipedia cross-searching

Postby Gui » Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:12 pm

Hello and Happy new year to everybody!!


Indeed, this kind of function would be really helpful. I use a lot Wikipedia to translate some difficult terms and the problem with Goldendict is that we can't see in which languages the current article is available. So is there any possibility to, at least, show this part too ? It would be great.

Thanks a lot for this great tool!
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