How to get text parts of wikipedia and use it at my android application

Question

I wrote an app that displays my location in a popup on a map, and also other locations from a database. I want to get some information from Wikipedia and present portions of it as location information.

But, I have no idea how to do this. I am new at Android, and I hope I can find some answers here.

have you tried at least something? -> whathaveyoutried.com – GNi33 Dec 06 '12 at 23:01 — GNi33, Dec 06 '12 at 23:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 22:59

You could use this Wikilocation API. It uses your current location to bring up nearby articles. Here is a sample:

http://api.wikilocation.org/articles?lat=51.500688&lng=-0.124411&limit=1

Will return

{
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7290308",
            "lat": "51.5006",
            "lng": "-0.124611",
            "title": "Big Ben",
            "url": "http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=7290308",
            "distance": "17m"
        }
    ]
}

Showing you that you are nearby Big Ben. See here for more docs

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 22:46

You could redirect the user to the wikipedia mobile page if you use this as your search term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + search

or if you don't want to display it in a WebView or in the browser, you could use the Wikimedia API to display only relevant parts of the description.

How to get text parts of wikipedia and use it at my android application

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