improve linked articles' snippets

falcondai / chrome-ext-wikipedia

A Chrome extension with goodies built for avid Wikipedia users.

MIT License

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Open falcondai opened 11 years ago

falcondai commented 11 years ago

the length of the snippet is somewhat arbitrary (determined by Wikipedia's search engine)
many snippets in foreign languages' (such as Chinese's) Wikipedia contain raw wiki formatting characters (Wikipedia's search engine returns bad results)
the pronunciations of names takes up a lot of space

probably need a new way to acquire text snippet to improve the situation.

falcondai commented 11 years ago

will opt to use wiki-text (with some formatting characters cleanup) in the next release. reference: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query