Using the web services

This page provides tutorials that demonstrate some of the cool things you can do with the Wikipedia Miner web services. The web demos included in the toolkit and hosted here are another source of code; feel free to crib them.

If you are looking for an exhaustive list of the available services, and the parameters they take, then try here.

Tutorial 1: How to get nice pithy definitions to pop up when users mouse over Wikipedia links.

Tutorial 2: How to take a persons’ query, identify the topics it mentions, and augment the query with additional synonyms and related topics.

Tutorial 3: How to take a snippet of text and recognize all of the different Wikipedia topics it discusses.

Tutorial 4: How to generate a graph display of Wikipedia topics and how they relate to each other.