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MediaWiki-API
This module provides an interface between perl and the MediaWiki API
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) allowing creation of scripts to automate
editing and extraction of data from MediaWiki driven sites like Wikipedia.
STANDARD INSTALLATION
This module requires the following perl modules
LWP::UserAgent
URI::Escape
JSON
Encode
Carp
and optionally JSON::XS for faster JSON decoding.
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Note: make test will make some edits on http://testwiki.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page
to check that it is working correctly. This will leave some data (including ip address)
on the wiki (which is cleaned regularly). If you do not want this, please skip the
"make test".
CREATING DEBIAN PACKAGE / INSTALLING ON DEBIAN
Please note that Debian squeeze and Ubuntu Karmic already have a package
with this module.
Note that this module requires the packages libwww-perl, libjson-perl, and
optionally libjson-xs-perl for faster JSON decoding.
On a debian system, you can easily generate a debian package to install. To
do this make sure you have the package "dh-make-perl" installed. Unpack the
MediaWiki-API-x.xx.tar.gz and run
dh-make-perl
dpkg-buildpackage
If everything works successfully you should have a deb file created in the
parent folder.
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc MediaWiki::API
You can also look for information at:
RT, CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=MediaWiki-API
AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/MediaWiki-API
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/MediaWiki-API
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/MediaWiki-API
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2009 - 2012 Jools Wills
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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