mediawiki

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: Library Commands (3)
Updated: 17 January 2010
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NAME

mediawiki - filter to get/put WikiPedia page

 

SYNOPSIS

edrc/lib/mediawiki [ -h ]

mediawiki -a { put | get } -u url -p wikipage [ -s section ]

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

 

DESCRIPTION

get/put MediaWiki pages from/to a MediaWiki server. The communication does not need the MediaWiki API ( api.php ), therefore also MediaWiki servers running on older versions then 1.13 are supported.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

-a
action:

put

put data stream to a MediaWiki page.

get

get data stream from MediaWiki page and print it to stdout.

-u url

Mediawiki URL. Example: http://acme.ch/wiki.

-p page

MediaWiki page below the url.

-s section

section number within the MediaWiki page.

 

ENVIRONMENT

$MEDIAWIKI_USER
user to connect to MediaWiki server.

$MEDIAWIKI_PASSWD
password of connection user.

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

1
could not log on to url specified with user user using the password.

2
errors while loading data to the url.

4
Usage printed.

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

edrcintro(1), vsdfml(3), http://www.mediawiki.org

 

NOTES

-

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

mediawiki was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Christian Walther

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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