Wikipedia Needs References / similarity

A browser extension that tells you when a page you're reading could be used as a reference in a Wikipedia article. With one click, you can get to an article and start editing!

Get it from the Chrome web store or Firefox Add-ons.

This repository contains all of the code for both the extension itself (Wikipedia Needs References) and the backend (similarity), which is hosted in the Wikimedia Toolforge and backed by ElasticSearch.

Installing on Toolforge

First, make sure to request ElasticSearch access.

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/eggpi/similarity
$ mkdir -p www/python/
$ ln -s ../../similariy www/python/src

Create a virtualenv and install the requirements:

$ virtualenv -p python3 www/python/venv
$ . www/python/venv/bin/activate
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install -r similarity/requirements.txt
$ deactivate

It may be necessary to run the pip install -r command more than once until it actually works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Install the crontab:

$ cat similarity/crontab | crontab

You also want to run the command in the crontab manually to populate the initial ElasticSearch dataset.

Now launch the app!

$ webservice --backend=kubernetes python start