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diff --git a/site/index.htm b/site/index.htm index 70ac396..cbce08f 100644 --- a/site/index.htm +++ b/site/index.htm @@ -10,35 +10,51 @@ h1, h2, h3 { font-family: sans; color: #000000; } </head> <body> -<p><a href="index_fr.htm" title="Page française">Page française</a></p> +<p><a href="index_fr.htm" title="Page française">Français</a> - <a href="index_ja.htm" title="日本語">日本語</a></p> <h1>WikipediaFS</h1> -<p><em>View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files.</em></p> +<p><strong>View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files ! +</strong></p> -<p>WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system that enables you to deal -with <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> (or +<p>WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system that allows to read +and edit articles from <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> (or any <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki">Mediawiki</a>-based -site) articles as if they were real files.</p> +site) as if they were real files.</p> -<p>It is thus possible to use a real text editor to view and edit -articles.</p> +<p>It is thus possible to <strong>view and edit articles using your favourite +text-editor</strong>. Text-editors tend to be more convenient than a simple +browser form when it comes to editing large texts and they generally include +useful features such as Mediawiki syntax highlighting and spell checking.</p> -<p>It is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>, -covered by the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public -License</a> and provided without any warranty of any kind.</p> +<p><img src="screenshot.png" alt="WikipediaFS using Kate" /><br /> +<em>Open your article, perform your modifications and save ! That's it, Wikipedia +has been updated for you!</em></p> + +<p><strong>Advance usage</strong> of WikipediaFS includes easy development of +scripts and <em>bots</em>. Programs simply have to deal with normal files +because this is WikipediaFS which takes care of the HTTP layer. For example, it +would be possible to use WikipediaFS to perform a massive content migration from +an existing site to a Mediawiki.</p> + +<p>WikipediaFS is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free +software</a>, covered by the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU +General Public License</a> and provided without any warranty of any kind.</p> <h2>Features</h2> <ul> -<li>Read and edit articles.</li> -<li>User configuration (cache time, sites).</li> -<li>Login to enable editing with one's username.</li> +<li>Reading and editing articles, including subpages.</li> +<li>User configuration : add your own Mediawiki.</li> +<li>Editing with your login.</li> +<li>HTTPS, HTTP authentication, proxy.</li> </ul> +<p>WikipediaFS is expected to work with Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.</p> + <h2>Download</h2> -<p><strong>Latest version:</strong> 0.2</p> +<p><strong>Latest version:</strong> 0.3</p> <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133079">Download @@ -47,42 +63,22 @@ area</a></p> <p>See the <a href="README.txt">README</a> file and the <a href="mount.wikipediafs.htm">manual page</a>.</p> -<h2>Current status</h2> - -<p>For short:</p> -<ul> -<li>WikipediaFS depends on the python bindings for fuse. Unfortunately, previous -stable releases are not available from the <a -href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FusePython">official -web site</a> anymore.</li> -<li>The development version, which is the only currently available from the -the official web site, is not compatible with WikipediaFS. Don't use it -with WikipediaFS!</li> -<li>Our policy is to wait until -the bindings get released before making WikipediaFS compatible with -them.</li> -<li>In the interim, the <a href="python-fuse-2.5.tar.bz2">following</a> package -of the bindings, which comes from Debian, may work for you.</li> -<li>Debian is currently the distribution that has probably the best support for -WikipediaFS. WikipediaFS is currently packaged in Debian using previous -releases of the bindings.</li> -</ul> -<p>Because we think that WikipediaFS is an interesting idea, we are looking for -co-maintainers and volunteers to help make WikipediaFS a more active -project!</p> <h2>Related links</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipediafs/">WikipediaFS project homepage at Sourceforge</a> (mailing-lists, bug tracker...).</li> -<li><a href="http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/wikipediafs/">Subversion +<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=133079">Subversion repository</a>.</li> +<li><a href="http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/wikipediafs/">Subversion +web interface</a>.</li> +<li>fuse-python <a href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FusePython">web site</a></li> </ul> <hr /> -<p>Copyrigth 2005 - 2006 Mathieu Blondel (mblondel !AT! users *DOT* +<p>Copyrigth 2005 - 2007 Mathieu Blondel (mblondel !AT! users *DOT* sourceforge *DOT* net). 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