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http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/mwlib

[edit] 2 Questions and discussion

Is it possible to 'round trip' a selection of wiki pages using mwlib? I.e. can I go from Mediawiki text to Parse Tree, and then back to mediawiki text?

I guess the Parse Tree format is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find it. (I've been looking at the the wiki pages, and the short example on http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/mwlib.)

Would it be easy to go from the Parse Tree to xml, and then back to mediawiki text? (This might be obvious for a python programmer.)

http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib/browse_thread/thread/7425f154077d2f3b#

Answer from Volker (april 2009):

currently it is not possible to convert the parse tree back to mediawiki markup. To achieve this, a mediawiki writer had to be written. Probably this is not too hard but notheless tedious and a couple of details will be tricky. If you are interested in learning Python this might be a good exercise ;)

[edit] 3 Links

• Also see Collection.
• Also see MWM.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection (Allows generation of pdf)
• Mediawiki feeds
  • http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiArticleFeeds_Extension (Allows generation of rss feed from mediawiki page)
• Collections to content package: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler, http://edu.onnz.net/wikieducator/package/ (Not an extension, but a web service)
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Export (XML export)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Export
• Mwlib, http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/mwlib
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec
• http://www.riehle.org/category/wiki-tech/
• http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/index-new