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 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.

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:

License

Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 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:

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• Neither the name of PediaPress GmbH nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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