Editing Wikipedia with mvs
October 11th 2006
I am currently doing some link disambiguation work for the Wikipedia, and as such, I have to find and replace the same strings many times, in many articles. The on-line Wikipedia edition is in general fine, but one would love to be able to use vim, for a task such as the one I’m taking. To do so, one can make use of mvs.
The mvs program allows us to download a Wikipedia article, save it as a file, then upload it again, after manipulating the file the way we want.
To log in to our Wikipedia account:
mvs login -d wikipedia.org -u username -p password
To download article “X” (beware the .wiki extension):
mvs update X.wiki
We can then edit X.wiki:
vim X.wiki
Then check it:
mvs preview X.wiki
firefox preview.html
And finally upload it:
mvs commit -m 'Your comment goes here' X.wiki
For more info, read the Wikipedia text editor support page
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