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Anki plug-in to import wikipedia content

Note for regular users

You are at the wrong place, to make use of this plug-in go its dedicated page on [anki addons] (https://ankiweb.net/shared/addons/)

Notes for developpers

Already tested on :

  • windows 7 64 bits
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Mac OSX 10.9.2 This plug-in makes use of import.io, a tool to extract informations from websites without pain.

Why ?

It was a lazy move, and not very wikipedia friendly as import.io circumvent the regular way to get datas from wikipedia. This plug-in won't be used with huge requests to wikipedia as it only read the pages within a single category, thus it's not really evil,but it could be better. More informations [there] (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_API_Overview) for anyone who has the courage to fork it for the good of wikipedia.

What are the import.io requests

These two import.io extractors are programmatically used :

How to make it work from these sources

  • Download all the python files
  • Open Anki addons directory
  • create a python file named wikiimport.py with this single line inside : import WikiImport.wiki_import
  • Create a directory named WikiImport
  • Move all the python files in there
  • Create an account on import.io
  • Create an API key from [this page] (https://import.io/data/account/)
  • With these two informations complete the two lines in useroptions.py
  • Open a profile in anki2 and try the plug-in with tools > wikipedia import

Known Issues

  • Sometimes the first paragraphe is broken in wikipedia in order to print a mathematical formula or a list. It's a rare event, but it can produce incomplete anki cards.
  • Card model is not good. I took it from the great IRead2 addon. You can see it in the add_wiki_model function inside wiki_import.py

Future Developpement

  • Other ideas to import the web into anki using import.io ?

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