MediaWiki-API

This module provides an interface between perl and the MediaWiki API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) allowing creation of scripts to automate editing and extraction of data from MediaWiki driven sites like Wikipedia.

STANDARD INSTALLATION

This module requires the following perl modules

LWP::UserAgent
URI::Escape
JSON
Encode
Carp

and optionally JSON::XS for faster JSON decoding.

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

CREATING DEBIAN PACKAGE / INSTALLING ON DEBIAN

Please note that Debian squeeze and Ubuntu Karmic already have a package with this module.

Note that this module requires the packages libwww-perl, libjson-perl, and optionally libjson-xs-perl for faster JSON decoding.

On a debian system, you can easily generate a debian package to install. To do this make sure you have the package "dh-make-perl" installed. Unpack the MediaWiki-API-x.xx.tar.gz and run

dh-make-perl
dpkg-buildpackage

If everything works successfully you should have a deb file created in the parent folder.

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc MediaWiki::API

You can also look for information at:

RT, CPAN's request tracker

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=MediaWiki-API

AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/MediaWiki-API

CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/MediaWiki-API

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/MediaWiki-API

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.