Someway of removing internal links from Wikipedia XML files?

Question

If I have downloaded Wikipedia XML dumps, is there any way of removing all of the internal links from within an XML file?

Thanks

Answer 1

One thing you could do, if you are importing them into a local wiki, is to import all the files you want, then use a robot (eg. pywikipediabot is easy to use) to get rid of all the internal links.

Answer 2

Wikipedia database dumps and information about using them are located here: Wikipedia:Database download. You should do this instead of writing a script to scrape Wikipedia.

Answer 3

I would try to use XSLT to transform the XML file into another XML file.

Answer 4

You could do a search and replace in your favorite text editor, replacing [[ and ]] with nothing.