Plugin for Wikipedia

[Alexander Wolf]

Copy from here: https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/bb37f777/

Hi guys

I'm new in the world of astronomy but learned about stellarium a few years ago. I can probably point out nothing in the sky so for me stellarium is more of an educational and learning tool rather than a sky map tool.

So from that educational/selfhelp angle I was wondering:
 - Is it possible to have a wikipedia plugin, so that when you click on a star/object you dont only get the sinbad numbers but can also read what wiki says about it. Of course it wont have entries for even a tiny fraction of the stars out there but I'm thinking that it can become a powerful tool if you combine it with scripting and taking people for various tours.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Does "confirmed" mean that someone's going to work on it? I have some
experience with the Wikipedia API (I wrote a wikibot for a course project
some time ago).

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

I have plan for this plugin - I'm added it to my TODO list. I don't worked with wikipedia API, but read docs - looks not very difficult.

Bogdan, if you want - you can take this task.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Will it involve a large JSON database? ;) (It's not hard to see a certain pattern in your contributions.)

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

No, just simple JSON answers :)

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

The bug report was moved to https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/issues/355