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*[http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ WikipediaFS] — view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files. | *[http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ WikipediaFS] — view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files. | ||
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors wikipedia:External editors] | *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors wikipedia:External editors] | ||
| + | *[http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep WikiPrep] — a [[Perl]] script for preprocessing Wikipedia XML dumps. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Latest revision as of 04:19, 31 March 2008
mvs is a command line Mediawiki client.
Contents
Basic usage
- login — Login to wiki:
% mvs login -d www.yoururl.com -u Bot -p "your_password" -w "/index.php"
- up/update — Fetch one or more working files:
% mvs update Foo.wiki Bar.wiki
- preview — Preview changes (does not commit anything):
% mvs preview -m "commit message" Foo.wiki
- com/commit — Commit (upload) changes:
% mvs commit -m "commit message" Foo.wiki
Notes
It is important the the files you 'commit' are in UTF-8 format. It easy to run a simple utility over all of your .wiki files:
for i in *.wiki; do iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 "$i" -o "converted/$i"; done
See also
- Using the python wikipediabot
- WWW::Wikipedia — automated interface to the Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia Query API
- xml2sql — converter tool for xml dump.
- WikipediaFS — view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files.
- wikipedia:External editors
- WikiPrep — a Perl script for preprocessing Wikipedia XML dumps.
