The DBpedia community uses a flexible and extensible framework to extract different kinds of structured information from Wikipedia.
The DBpedia information extraction framework is written using PHP 5. The framework is available from the DBpedia SVN (GNU GPL License).
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to make sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.