Search script for Wikipedia

Jagg · Post by **Jagg** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:45 am

Hi,

is there a search script out there which searches through wikipedia sites (for example the biggest one http://en.wikipedia.org) and prints the results in the channel?

Thanks

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:40 am

wikipedia has forbidden searches

Jagg · Post by **Jagg** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:24 pm

demond wrote:wikipedia has forbidden searches

Why that?! Searches "from outside" are forbidden or what does this mean exactly (on wikipedia there is a search function)?

Do you have a url where this restriction is shown?

Thanks

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:29 pm

Wikipedia search is disabled for performance reasons. You can search via Google or Yahoo! in the meantime. Note that their indexes of Wikipedia content may be out of date. If the search term contains an underscore, change it into a space.

Jagg · Post by **Jagg** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:40 pm

Ok, I see....

But there are many wiki-sites out there so this search script is still very interesting I think

All wiki sites use the http://www.mediawiki.org/ php script so all sites are "looking the same"!