PUBLIC MARKS with tags wikipedia & api

I'm happy to offer up a full REST-ful API service for developers wishing to search for Wikipedia articles by location. The data is gathered by downloading the Wikipedia database on a weekly basis and then parsing all of the geocoded entries. This data is then stored in a database where it is able to be accessed via the API. At present, there are over 3.5 million entries covering 36 different languages and this number increases every week.

DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to make sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.

"You can export the text and editing history of a particular page or set of pages wrapped in some XML". e.g. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Wiki

"BlinkBits has converted Wikipedia's publicly available xml export into RSS feeds. So now over 1 Million Wikipedia topic titles from 7 different languages are available for you to preview and receive via RSS".

combines the google maps api with wikipedia articles and their locations. click “random place” to explore a little