===== Wikipedia Action =====
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This action is meant to automatically incorporate http://wikipedia.org content in your pages.
To use it as a standalone action simply add for instance: --- ##""{{wikipedia topic="Workflow"}}""## in the page body.

Save the code below as ##actions/wikipedia.php##.

=== The action ===
Current version: 0.1

Changes:

To do:

----

##actions/wikipedia.php##


%%(php)
<?php
$topic = $vars['topic'];
$file = file_get_contents('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'.$topic);
$file = str_replace('href="/', 'href="http://en.wikipedia.org/', $file);
preg_match_all('#<!-- start content -->(.*?)<!-- end content -->#es', $file, $ar);
unset($file);
if (is_array($ar[1])) echo $ar[1][0];
else echo '';
?>
%%

Extracted and changed from:
Mediawiki MySite class DOCS (ver. 0.1.0)
AUTHOR: Piotr Maliński
Contact: [email protected]
Site: http://www.english.rk.edu.pl | http://www.cms.rk.edu.pl - Polish
License: GPL

Another version of the code that does the same but now with some more error checking and multiple language support as suggested by DarTar.
%%(php)
<?php
// wikipedia action
// This action will insert the content of the supplied topic in your page.
// Usage examples: {{wikipedia topic="Workflow"}}
// {{wikipedia topic="Madrid" lang="es"}}

function fetchUrlWithoutHanging($url)
{
// Set maximum number of seconds (can have floating-point) to wait for feed before displaying page without feed
$numberOfSeconds=4;

// Suppress error reporting so Web site visitors are unaware if the feed fails
error_reporting(0);

// Extract resource path and domain from URL ready for fsockopen

$url = str_replace("http://","",$url);
$urlComponents = explode("/",$url);
$domain = $urlComponents[0];
$resourcePath = str_replace($domain,"",$url);

// Establish a connection
$socketConnection = fsockopen($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, $numberOfSeconds);

if (!$socketConnection)
{
// You may wish to remove the following debugging line on a live Web site
print("WikiPedia Error: ");
} // end if
else {
$xml = '';
fputs($socketConnection, "GET /$resourcePath HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $domain\r\n\r\n");

// Loop until end of file
while (!feof($socketConnection))
{
$xml .= fgets($socketConnection, 128);
} // end while

fclose ($socketConnection);

} // end else

return($xml);

} // end function



$topic = $vars['topic'];
if (!isset($vars['lang'])) $lang = 'en';
else $lang = $vars['lang'];

if ($file = fetchUrlWithoutHanging('http://'.$lang.'.wikipedia.org/wiki/'.$topic))
{
$file = str_replace('href="/', 'href="http://'.$lang.'.wikipedia.org/', $file);
preg_match_all('#<!-- start content -->(.*?)<!-- end content -->#es', $file, $ar);
unset($file);
if (is_array($ar[1])) echo $ar[1][0];
else echo '';
}
else
{
echo 'http://'.$lang.'.wikipedia.org/wiki/'.$topic.' could not be found!';
}
?>
%%

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