mediawiki parser and utility library
Project description
Overview
mwlib provides a library for parsing MediaWiki articles. It is currently aimed at developers, who have a need to somehow handle MediaWiki articles.
Installation
You need to have setuptools/easy_install installed. Installation should be as easy as typing:
$ easy_install mwlib
If you don’t have setuptools installed, download the source package, unpack it and run:
$ python setup.py install
(this will also install setuptools)
You can also install the latest mwlib tip with:
$ easy_install mwlib==dev
(However, you need to have re2c installed for that to work).
You will also need:
- LaTeX
LaTeX is used for rendering of mathematical formulas.
- perl
perl is used to drive the EasyTimeline.pl script, which produces timeline images.
- PIL
PIL is the Python Imaging Library and is used for image handling.
- lxml
lxml is needed for the docbookwriter.
- blahtexml
Blahtex is a program written in C++, which converts an equation given in a syntax close to TeX into MathML. It is designed by David Harvey and is aimed at supporting equations in MediaWiki. (http://gva.noekeon.org/blahtexml/)
- texvc
texvc (TeX validator and converter) is a program which validates (AMS) LaTeX mathematical expressions and converts them to HTML, MathML, or PNG graphics. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texvc).
Commands
The commands (i.e. command-line tools) provided by mwlib are described in docs/commands.txt.
Configuration
The format of configuration files is described in docs/configfiles.txt.
See example_conf.py for an example configuration.
Contact/Further Information
For further information please visit our Trac instance running at http://code.pediapress.com/. The current development version can also be found there.
Credits
mwlib/cdb.py is based on the cdb implementation from the SpamBayes project ((C) 2002-2004 Python Software Foundation). The remaining parts are distributed under the BSD license:
ChangeLog
2009-4-21 release 0.10.4
fix chapter handling
fix bad #tag params
2009-4-17 release 0.10.3
fix issue with self-closing tags
fix issue with “disappearing” table rows
2009-4-15 release 0.10.2
fix for getURL() method in zipwiki
2009-4-9 release 0.10.1
the parser has been completely rewritten (mwlib.refine)
fix bug in recorddb.py: do not overwrite articles
removed mwapidb.WikiDB.getTemplatesForArticle() which was broken and wasn’t used.
2009-3-5 release 0.9.13
normalize template names when checking against blacklist
make NAMESPACE magic work for non-main namespaces
make NS template work
2009-03-02 release 0.9.12
fix template expansion bug with non self-closing ref tags containing equal signs
2009-2-25 release 0.9.11
added –print-template-pattern
fix bug in LOCALURLE with non-ascii characters (#473)
fix ‘upright’ image modifier handling (#459)
allow star inside URLs (#483)
allow whitespace in image width modifiers (#475)
2009-2-19 release 0.9.10
do not call check() in zipcreator: better some missing articles than an error message
2009-2-18 release 0.9.8
localize image modifiers
fix bug in serve with forced rendering
fix bug in writerbase when no URL is returned
return only unqiue image contributors, sorted
#expr with whitespace only argument now returns the empty string instead of marking the result as an error.
added mw-serve-ctl command line tool (#447)
mwapidb: omit title in URLs with oldid
mwapidb: added getTemplatesForArticle()
zipcreator: check articles and sources to prevent broken ZIP files
mwapidb: do query continuation to find out all authors (#420)
serve: use a deterministic checksum for metabooks (#451)
2009-2-9 release 0.9.7
fix bug in #expr parsing
fix bug in localised namespace handling/#ifexist
fix bug in redirect handling together with specific revision in mwapidb
2009-2-3 release 0.9.6
mwapidb: return authors alphabetically sorted (#420)
zipcreator: fixed classname from DummyScheduler to DummyJobScheduler; this bug broke the –no-threads option
serve: if rendering is forced, don’t re-use ZIP file (#432)
options: remove default value “Print” from –print-template-prefix
mapidb: expand local* functions, add them to source dictionary
expander: fix memory leak in template parser (#439)
expander: better noinclude, includeonly handling (#426)
expander: #iferror now uses a regular expression (#435)
expander: workaround dateutils bug (resulting in a TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: ‘NoneType’ and ‘int’)
2009-1-26 release 0.9.5
License
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 PediaPress GmbH
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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