Mediawiki.el
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.
| Description | Mediawiki interface and markup mode |
|---|---|
| Author | Jerry et al |
| Maintainer | Mark A. Hershberger |
| Source | https://code.launchpad.net/~hexmode/mediawiki-el/trunk |
| Part of Emacs | no |
Setup
Install mediawiki.el from el-get or ELPA.
If you are using emacs-24, you could do the following: Edit your .emacs file like this:
(require 'package)
(package-initialize)
;; Not sure which one should come first, but you certainly one of these.
;; As of sept. 2012, this package is not in ELPA
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
Then, either use the menu Options->Manage Emacs Packages or type M-X package-list-packages
- search mediawiki and click on it
... almost done.
Site requirements
The MediaWiki site that you wish to edit must have its API enabled:
$wgEnableAPI=true;
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") ; put your user name and password
("WikEmacs" "http://wikemacs.org/" "" "" "Main Page")))
;; Emacs users care more for WikEmacs than Wikipedia :-).
;; In any case, do not forget the slash at the end of the URL.
(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 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
- [Tab] (or M-x mediawiki-mediawiki-goto-next-link)
- Get to next link
Customizations
Word Wrap
Mediawiki sites are generally unfilled: do not add hard line breaks within a paragraph. There are various ways to wrap lines visually while you edit. For example in Emacs 24 you may want to enable Visual Line mode with a mode hook:
(setq mediawiki-mode-hook (lambda ()
(visual-line-mode 1)))
Edit or Create a page in a web browser
Right now Mediawiki.el fails silently whenever the site asks for number challenge (spam protection). The following snippet allows you to edit/create a page in a web browser
(defun yyr-mediawiki-browser-edit/create-page (page &optional site)
"Edit a page in browser, asks for page name (sitename also if needed)"
(interactive "sPage name (words): ")
(let* ((site (mediawiki-prompt-for-site))
(url (mediawiki-site-extract site 1))
(index "index.php?title=")
(et "&action=edit"))
(funcall 'browse-url
(message "%s%s%s%s"
url index (mediawiki-translate-pagename page) et))))
Call yyr-mediawiki-browser-edit/create-page
Key binding to open current editing file in web browser
Bind mediawiki-browse to some key chord. The following uses [C-c o]
(define-key mediawiki-mode-map (kbd "C-c o") 'mediawiki-browse)
Known Bugs
- Version 2.2.2 works fine on GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) when there is no challenge (e.g. arithmetic problem). But when external links are added, so there is a challenge, mediawiki doesn't alert the user or show the arithmetic problem. The only evidence of failure is that the page is never updated.