WIKITRANS

NAME

wikitrans - MediaWiki markup translator

SYNOPSIS

wikitrans [OPTIONS] ARG

DESCRIPTION

wikitrans translates MediaWiki documents markup to various other formats. If ARG looks like a URL, the wiki text to be converted will be downloaded from that URL.

Otherwise, if --base-url is given, ARG is treated as the name of the page to get from the WikiMedia istallation at that URL.

Otherwise, ARG is name of the file to read wiki material from.

OPTIONS

--version

Show program version number and exit.

-h, --help

Show a short usage summary and exit.

-v, --verbose

verbose operation

-I ITYPE, --input-type=ITYPE

set input document type ("default" or "wiktionary")

-t OTYPE, --to=OTYPE, --type=OTYPE

set output document type ("html" (default), "texi", "text", or "dump")

-l LANG, --lang=LANG

set input document language

-o KW=VAL, --option=KW=VAL

set keyword option for the parser class constructor

-d DEBUG, --debug=DEBUG

set debug level (0..100)

-D, --dump

dump parse tree and exit; similar to --type=dump

-b URL, --base-url=URL

set base url

Note: when using --base-url or passing URL as an argument (2nd and 3rd use cases above), if the URL is in 'wikipedia.org' or 'wiktionary.org' domain, the options --input-type, and --lang are set automatically.

EXAMPLES

wikitrans text.wiki

wikitrans --base-url http://en.wiktionary.org door

wikitrans https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Export/door

AUTHOR

wikitrans was written by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>

This manual page was written by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).