About the TRYNT Wiktionary Related Web Service

The TRYNT Wiktionary Related Web Service extracts related words from Wiktionary.

Here are a few examples of the web service in action:

• Wiktionary Related > Cat
• Wiktionary Related > Kitten
• Wiktionary Related > Horse

About the TRYNT Wiktionary Translate Web Service

The TRYNT Wiktionary Translate Web Service extracts word translations from Wiktionary. Pretty self explanatory.

Here are a few examples of the web service in action:

• Wiktionary Translate > Cat
• Wiktionary Translate > Kitten
• Wiktionary Translate > Horse
  

Wiki Web Service Madness Returns

Wikipedia is an amazingly robust resource with numerous side projects covering individual niches. After reviewing a few more we've decided to implement APIs for Wiktionary and Wikiquote.

(Interested in historical Wikipedia Web Service Madness?)

About the TRYNT Wiki Suggest Web Service

The TRYNT Wiki Suggest Web Service converts Wikipedia data into useful search suggestions. All data provided by this API is supplied by Wikipedia.

Here are some examples of the web service in action:

• Wiki Suggest > Pirate (article method)
• Wiki Suggest > Pirate (category method)
• Wiki Suggest > Pirate (disambiguous method)

It's important to note that the disambiguous method returns ranked data so you'll need to take that into account when developing with this web service.

IMHO the Pirate (category method) is returing some very interesting results. It is returning a list of "notable pirates." (You've got to love Wikipedia!)

Wikipedia and "Unauthorized" APIs

Do you think our "unauthorized" APIs should be listed under "External Links" in Wikipedia?

We were recently notified by a member of the Odin team that our TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service was listed and subsequently removed from the Wikipedia > IMDB page. If that was edited out then I doubt we'd qualify for the Wikipedia > All Movie Guide page.

I'm personally a bit surprised because:

• The APIs in question fill existing voids in the service
  
• All TRYNT APIs are made free for public consumption
• TRYNT didn't try to add the APIs but rather a third party did

About the TRYNT Wiki Web Service

The TRYNT Wiki Web Service extracts data from MediaWiki based Wikis. This web service is not a "wikiparse" but rather a data extraction tool. Queries for this web service are two part; a topic search and a subject. If no subject is passed the search value will be used as the subject. If no Wiki URL values are passed this web service defaults to Wikipedia.

Demo links for this web service are available here.

Introducing QuickyWiki (beta)

QuickyWiki is a fresh beta mash-up from TRYNT Heavy Technologies. QuickyWiki started life as a "technology demo" for the new TRYNT Wiki Web Services.

So what s QuickyWiki? The goal of QuickyWiki is to blend the depth of Wikipedia (and Wikis in general) with the ease and speed of Cliffs Notes.

Please keep in mind this is all very much still in beta.

Here are a few quick example links:

• QuickyWiki > Animation
• QuickyWiki > Anime
• QuickyWiki > Baby
• QuickyWiki > Baseball

More Wiki Web Service Madness

Sorry for the lack of documentation but the "brave" can use these URLs to jump right into developing:

• Wikipedia Topics Web Service: Identify if a wiki page includes a single or set of topics. Example: Does the California page talk about Beach, Beaches, Urban, Gambling, Government?
  
  
• Wikipedia Disambiguation Web Service (still tentative name): Identify wiki page links.
  Example: Where does Odin disambiguate to? What wiki links are on the California page? Where does California disambiguate to?