Mvs
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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.
