===== Wikipedia Action =====
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This action is meant to automatically incorporate http://wikipedia.org content in your pages. 
To use it as a standalone action simply add for instance: --- ##""{{wikipedia topic="Workflow"}}""## in the page body.

Save the code below as ##actions/wikipedia.php##.

=== The action ===
Current version: 0.1

Changes:

To do:

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##actions/wikipedia.php##


%%(php)
<?php
	$topic = $vars['topic'];
	$file = file_get_contents('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'.$topic);
	$file = str_replace('href="/', 'href="http://en.wikipedia.org/', $file);
	preg_match_all('#<!-- start content -->(.*?)<!-- end content -->#es', $file, $ar);
	unset($file);
	if (is_array($ar[1])) echo $ar[1][0];
	else echo '';
?>
%%

Extracted and changed from:
Mediawiki MySite class DOCS (ver. 0.1.0)
AUTHOR: Piotr Mali&#324;ski
Contact: riklaunim@gmail.com
Site: http://www.english.rk.edu.pl | http://www.cms.rk.edu.pl - Polish
License: GPL

Another version of the code that does the same but now with some more error checking and multiple language support as suggested by DarTar.
%%(php)
<?php
	// wikipedia action
	// This action will insert the content of the supplied topic in your page.
	// Usage examples: {{wikipedia topic="Workflow"}}
	//                        {{wikipedia topic="Madrid" lang="es"}}

			   function fetchUrlWithoutHanging($url)
	   {
	   // Set maximum number of seconds (can have floating-point) to wait for feed before displaying page without feed
	   $numberOfSeconds=4;    
	
	   // Suppress error reporting so Web site visitors are unaware if the feed fails
	   error_reporting(0);
	
	   // Extract resource path and domain from URL ready for fsockopen
	
	   $url = str_replace("http://","",$url);
	   $urlComponents = explode("/",$url);
	   $domain = $urlComponents[0];
	   $resourcePath = str_replace($domain,"",$url);
	
	   // Establish a connection
	   $socketConnection = fsockopen($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, $numberOfSeconds);
	
	   if (!$socketConnection)
		   {
		   // You may wish to remove the following debugging line on a live Web site
		   print("WikiPedia Error: ");
		   }    // end if
	   else    {
		   $xml = '';
		   fputs($socketConnection, "GET /$resourcePath HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $domain\r\n\r\n");
	   
		   // Loop until end of file
		   while (!feof($socketConnection))
			   {
			   $xml .= fgets($socketConnection, 128);
			   }    // end while
	
		   fclose ($socketConnection);
	
		   }    // end else
	
	   return($xml);
	
	   }    // end function

	
	
	$topic = $vars['topic'];
		if (!isset($vars['lang'])) $lang = 'en';
		else $lang = $vars['lang'];

	if ($file = fetchUrlWithoutHanging('http://'.$lang.'.wikipedia.org/wiki/'.$topic))
	{
		$file = str_replace('href="/', 'href="http://'.$lang.'.wikipedia.org/', $file);
		preg_match_all('#<!-- start content -->(.*?)<!-- end content -->#es', $file, $ar);
		unset($file);
		if (is_array($ar[1])) echo $ar[1][0];
		else echo '';
	}
	else
	{
		echo 'http://'.$lang.'.wikipedia.org/wiki/'.$topic.' could not be found!';
	}
?>
%%

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