[okfn-labs] [ANN] WikipediaJS - a small Javascript library for accessing information in Wikipedia articles

[Rufus Pollock]

Hi All (and esp Michael and Daniel and Daniel Mietchen who sent feedback),

I wanted to let people know that the Firefox bugs have been fixed and
the handling of dates has been improved plus the "type" of the entity
is extracted.

Some examples:

<http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_AB>
<http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England>
<http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN>
<http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings>

Rufus

[1]: https://github.com/okfn/wikipediajs/commit/470f31fb4ab7c78126e922f0b372e3506cd2f56e

On 7 September 2012 08:29, Daniel Lombraña González <teleyinex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great idea!! This will be awesome also for Popcorn.JS and other libraries
> :-) One issue: I've tried the demo and it didn't work in Firefox 15 while it
> works perfectly well in Chrome. The error reported by Firefox is the
> following:
>
> [09:27:20.207] TypeError: dict is undefined @
> http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/wikipedia.js:98
>
> I've opened a Github issue about this bug:
> https://github.com/okfn/wikipediajs/issues/4
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel