Mediawiki.el

mediawiki.el
Description	Mediawiki interface and markup mode
Author	name of author
Maintainer	Mark A. Hershberger
Source	https://code.launchpad.net/~hexmode/mediawiki-el/trunk
Part of Emacs	no

Mediawiki.el is a package to help add content to any mediawiki site including WikEmacs. It comes with a Major Mode to support editing Mediawiki markup.

Setup

Install mediawiki.el from el-get or ELPA.

Customization

M-x load-library RET mediawiki RET: Load the library

M-x customize-variable RET mediawiki-site-alist

Configure as follows and save your settings

Site Name: WikEmacs

URL: http://wikemacs.org/w/

Username: InCognito

Password: s!cr!t

First Page: Main Page

You can provide "Username" and "Password" in your .authinfo file. home directory.

Alternatively you can add this snippet of Emacs Lisp code to your .emacs:

(require 'mediawiki)

(setq mediawiki-site-alist '(("Wikipedia" "http://en.wikipedia.org/w" "" "" "Main Page")
                             ("WikEmacs" "http://wikemacs.org/w/" "" "" "Main Page")))

;; Emacs users care more for WikEmacs than Wikipedia :-)
(setq mediawiki-site-default "WikEmacs")

You can naturally add more MediaWiki sites to the mediawiki-site-alist variable.

Usage

M-x mediawiki-site: Choose a site (say "WikEmacs") for the current session.

[C-c C-o] (or M-x mediawiki-open): Open a page. To edit the main page, type "Main Page". Make your edits.

[C-x C-s] (or M-x mediawiki-save): Submit your modifications.

[C-c] (or M-x mediawiki-save-and-bury): Submit modifications and bury the buffer.

Helpful Keybindings

[C-return] (or M-x mediawiki-open-page-at-point): Follow or browse to a WikiLink.

[M-g] (or M-x mediawiki-reload): Reload a page

Customizations

Word Wrapping

Mediawiki sites are generally unfilled . Newline character are not used for breaking paragraphs. Emacs does supports word wrap but from [Emacs 24].

Emacs 24

You may want to turn on word wrapping.

(setq mediawiki-mode-hook (lambda ()
                            (visual-line-mode 1)))

key binding for open current editing file in web browser?

bind Template:Function:mediawiki-browse to some key chord. The following uses Template:Key:C-c o

(define-key mediawiki-mode-map (kbd "C-c o") 'mediawiki-browse)

External Links