世界的志愿者们已经向wikimedia.org上传了300万可以自由使用的文件了！

Wikimedia Commons: Three million files and rising
The three millionth file

Wikimedia Commons, the multilingual free-content media repository managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, reached the milestone of three million uploaded files on July 16, 2008, less than a year after it reached two million. This makes Wikimedia Commons the fastest growing large Wikimedia project. The rapid growth reflects the young age of the project, launched just under four years ago in September 2004. Since March 2007, Wikimedia Commons has routinely had over 100,000 files uploaded every single month. It is now not uncommon for tens of thousands of files to be uploaded in a single day.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/3M

世界的志愿者们已经向wikimedia.org上传了300万可以自由使用的文件了！

以后有东西应该去wikimedia搜搜。

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid-for artists but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome

上面东西不少：） 比如可以用在网站的图标： http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cat_icons

在ubuntu的软件源中搜索wikipedia看到两个工具

在ubuntu的软件源中搜索wikipedia看到两个工具

wikipedia2text

displays Wikipedia articles on the command line
This script fetches Wikipedia articles (currently supports around 30
Wikipedia languages) and displays them as plain text in a pager or
just sends the text to standard out. Alternatively it opens the
Wikipedia article in a (possibly GUI) web browser or just shows the
URL of the appropriate Wikipedia article.

使用起来很简单。安装后，命令行下输入 wikipedia2text 它给出帮助。

比如我现在命令行喜爱快速查看wikipedia英文的free sfotware条目。只需要

  wikipedia2text free software

默认搜索英文wikipedia，默认没有翻页，全部滚屏。文章长前面的部分就滚过去了。所以加上翻页（pager）的开关： -p

  wikipedia2text －p free software

你当然也可以使用bash管道

  wikipedia2text free software|less

但 -p 输入字符少啊。

如果你查找中文条目，用 -l 开关设定语言， l 就是 language 呗，中文是 zh

  wikipedia2text -p -l zh 庄子

就显示庄子的中文条目。

很方便。命令行下就是好。

唯一问题是中文因为存在繁体和简体。似乎无法设定获取哪个。我看到是简体。

有一个好处，就是如名称所说的，它给你输出的文章是纯文本的，可以方便定向到某个文件和做其他操作。

wikipediafs

View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files
WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system that enables you
to deal with Wikipedia (or any Mediawiki-based site) articles as if
they were real files.

It is thus possible to use a real text editor to view and edit
articles.

http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net

libwww-mediawiki-client-perl

simple CVS-like interface for editing MediaWiki websites
This package includes the MVS client and the WWW::Mediawiki::Client perl
library implementing the functionality in MVS. WWW::Mediawiki::Client provides
a very simple CVS-like interface for viewing, staying in sync with, and
editing pages in websites that run Mediawiki software. In particular, the
software is extremely useful for editing pages in Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
websites.

MVS is a command line client whose purpose is to simplify offline editing of
Wiki content. It allows you to get any number of pages from a given Mediawiki
site, edit the pages with any editor, get and merge any concurrent updates of
the pages, and then safely commit the users own changes back to the version of
the page on the server.

这个好厉害。：）不用开浏览器就能编辑和管理网站的东西我都喜欢。：）

和wikipedia相关的几个自由软件项目

和wikipedia相关的几个自由软件项目

Printed Books from Wiki Content

Combine the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. Books are typeset and printed on demand based on your personal selection. Starting from US$ 7.83 you get your unique book and support the Wikimedia Foundation.

http://pediapress.com/

这个组织的软件项目更吸引我，可以把用mediawiki的语法写的文章转换成其它各种格式！！

http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki

下面的这个可以直接读入mediawiki让你下载的数据库数据并以适合阅读的格式呈现出来

Able to read read and serve 40Wikimedia files as is (with a little help from other files). It does not have support for images, as they are huge, and not practical for offline reading on a device with limited space.
http://code.google.com/p/pyoffwiki/

pyswim 0.2: Static WIkipedia Mirror

Static WIkipedia Mirror by Python
File Type Py Version Size # downloads
39pyswim-0.2.tar.gz (40md5) Source 28KB 113

* Author: Xie Yanbo <xieyanbo at gmail com>
* Home Page: 41http://pyswim.googlecode.com
* Download URL: 42http://pyswim.googlecode.com
* License: BSD

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyswim/0.2

代码在： http://code.google.com/p/pyswim/

aarddict

8Aarddict is a dictionary for Nokia Internet Tablets

Aarddict is a dictionary application providing offline access to dictionaries, Wikipedia and other reference materials. It was originally designed for Nokia Internet Tablet devices but it works on any other platform where Python is available (e.g. OpenMoko, iPhone, Windows).

http://code.google.com/p/aarddict/