grabbing info from wikipedia

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Posted by quant
Nov 5, 2008 at 11:02 AM

How do you grab websites from wikipedia? When I do it through ScrapBook to UR, there is a wasted space on the left which I don’t know how to get rid of, see example
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/1088/0439ey0.jpg

Do you have the same problem with WR, Surfulater, or other more web-oriented PIM? If so, how do you get around it?

Thanks for your help

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 5, 2008 at 01:09 PM

InfoQube grabs it perfectly. Example here:

http://sites.google.com/site/infoqube/screenshots-1

Posted by $Bill
Nov 5, 2008 at 03:27 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>InfoQube grabs it perfectly. Example here:
> >http://sites.google.com/site/infoqube/screenshots-1

I have managed to grab a copy in InfoQube but the copy does not have “live” hyperlinks which I would like. (Although with some effort I could edit the HTML and find them..)

I need to manually make a Wiki entry to have the Item in the grid link to the page I copied, right?

I am hoping that I missing something.

As I work around my limitations (and perhaps InfoQubes), I am linking from items in InfoQube to items in UltraRecall using the URL syntax Wikipedia. Does Webresearch or Surfulator offer similar functionality?

Posted by quant
Nov 5, 2008 at 03:30 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>InfoQube grabs it perfectly. Example
>here:
> >http://sites.google.com/site/infoqube/screenshots-1

UR with ScrapBook grabs it perfectly as well. The thing is that I want to save only part of the website, the one that contains “meat”, I don’t want the panel on the left side. But if I choose only part of the web, the empty space on the left side is still there (and on top as well), taking valuable space, and the extracted page then looks horrible in my PIM (because there is not enough space if I have my explorer open on the left side):
http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/3/11/5/f_0440m_b1ce642.jpg

I suppose it’s some css style, so I was wondering how other programs deal with it. Most of other pages I’ve come across don’t have this “problem”, but as wikipedia is a great source of information, it’s quite annoying.

Posted by $Bill
Nov 5, 2008 at 03:34 PM

Oops, I’ll try again…
$Bill wrote:

>As I work around my limitations (and perhaps InfoQubes), I am linking
>from items in InfoQube to items in UltraRecall using the URL syntax (ie ur://D:/DataStore/UltraRecall/test.urd?item=1052). Does
>Webresearch or Surfulator offer similar functionality?

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