https://github.com/waldyrious/primerpedia

Simplified extracts of Wikipedia articles, showing just the basic information.
https://github.com/waldyrious/primerpedia

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Simplified extracts of Wikipedia articles, showing just the basic information.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/waldyrious/primerpedia
• Owner: waldyrious
• License: other
• Created: 2012-12-08T16:16:24.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-05T21:30:32.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T16:45:06.534Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: summary, tldr, wikipedia
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://primerpedia.toolforge.org
• Size: 130 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 17
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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Primerpedia

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Primerpedia is a proof-of-concept demo for the

[Concise Wikipedia](http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concise_Wikipedia) proposal.

It provides short summaries of Wikipedia articles,

for when you just need a quick overview at the topic.

Try the live demo here: **https://primerpedia.toolforge.org**

(If that link is down, try [this one](https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/primerpedia)

or [this one](http://waldyrious.github.io/primerpedia).)

To achieve this, it uses the MediaWiki API to fetch the first section of an article,

and cleans it up for presentation, removing extra details and editing-related templates

(currently using the cleanup procedure implemented by the

[MobileFrontend extension](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#prop.3Dextracts)).

This tool should also help identify issues with the lead sections of Wikipedia articles,

which, according to the [Manual of Style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:LEAD),

_"should define the topic and summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight."_