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<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><strong>View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files !
</strong></p>

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<p><span style="color:red; font-weight:bold">Warning!</span> WikipediaFS is
currently unmaintained. We are looking for a new maintainer to take over the
development of the project. If you are interested, please tell us on the
project's mailing-list.</p>

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<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) as if they were real files.</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><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>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> 0.4</p>

<p><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133079">Download
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>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://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=133079">Subversion
repository</a>.</li>
<li><a
href="http://wikipediafs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wikipediafs/">Subversion
web interface</a>.</li>
<li>fuse-python <a href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FusePython">web site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WikipediaFs">WikipediaFS emacs
mode</a>.</li>
</ul>

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<p>Copyrigth 2005 - 2007 Mathieu Blondel (mblondel !AT! users *DOT*
sourceforge *DOT* net). Hosting graciously offered by <a
href="http://www.sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</a>.</p>

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