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'''mvs''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] Mediawiki client.
 
'''mvs''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] Mediawiki client.
  
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  % mvs commit -m "''commit message''" ''Foo.wiki''
 
  % mvs commit -m "''commit message''" ''Foo.wiki''
  
== See also ==
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===Notes===
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_the_python_wikipediabot Using the python wikipediabot]
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It is important the the files you 'commit' are in UTF-8 format. It easy to run a simple utility over all of your <code>.wiki</code> files:
* [http://search.cpan.org/~esummers/WWW-Wikipedia-1.9/ WWW::Wikipedia] &mdash; automated interface to the Wikipedia.
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for i in *.wiki; do iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 "$i" -o "converted/$i"; done
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API Wikipedia Query API]
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* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xml2sql xml2sql] &mdash; converter tool for xml dump.
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==See also==
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*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_the_python_wikipediabot Using the python wikipediabot]
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*[http://search.cpan.org/~esummers/WWW-Wikipedia-1.9/ WWW::Wikipedia] &mdash; automated interface to the Wikipedia.
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API Wikipedia Query API]
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*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xml2sql xml2sql] &mdash; converter tool for xml dump.
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*[http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ WikipediaFS] &mdash; view and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files.
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*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors wikipedia:External editors]
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*[http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep WikiPrep] &mdash; 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.

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

External links