MAKE | WikipediaFS – a Linux MediaWiki file-system

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By jstriegel
Posted 2007/05/06 @ 6:45 pm
Category Electronics

WikipediaFS is a Linux virtual file system that allows you to interact with Wikipedia as if it were a typical directory on your machine. This means you can view and edit Wikipedia entries with a normal text editor like vi.

WikipediaFS can be configured to work with any MediaWiki-based site, so this makes it a pretty powerful tool for maintaining your personal Wiki project as well.

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4 Responses to WikipediaFS – a Linux MediaWiki file-system

grahl on May 7th, 2007 at 1:13 am said:

Isn’t this a bit too pre-alpha? The last release was June 22 2006 and except for one bugfix five weeks ago the SVN repository suggests no further progress.
I think it’s a cool idea but could never get it running a few months ago..

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guest on January 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm said:

Tried just now on gentoo, it just creates directories given in the XML file and nothing else. Am missing anything?

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Pete on January 13th, 2008 at 6:09 am said:

Wiki learning is a working example The latest version is stable.

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Jim on February 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 am said:

The maintainer is giving the project up. Apparently from the mailing list, there is someone interested and working on a patch, but nothing yet.

I used this a while ago for a personal wiki project. It was pretty neat, but didn’t work over Samba or dokan. You go into the folder and open files that would be in the wiki. (Seeing nothing at the start and at each reboot is normal) cd into the wiki you are looking at and either cat or touch (I think) the file for the page you want (ex, for Main_Page you would cat Main_Page.mw on the command line)

Quite useful and much better than the external edit scripts.

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