WIKITRANS(1) General Commands Manual WIKITRANS(1)
NAME
wikitrans - MediaWiki markup translator
SYNOPSIS
wikitrans [OPTIONS] ARG
DESCRIPTION
wikitrans translates MediaWiki documents markup to various other for-
mats. If ARG looks like a URL, the wiki text to be converted will be
downloaded from that URL.
Otherwise, if --base-url is given, ARG is treated as the name of the
page to get from the WikiMedia istallation at that URL.
Otherwise, ARG is name of the file to read wiki material from.
OPTIONS
--version
Show program version number and exit.
-h, --help
Show a short usage summary and exit.
-v, --verbose
verbose operation
-I ITYPE, --input-type=ITYPE
set input document type ("default" or "wiktionary")
-t OTYPE, --to=OTYPE, --type=OTYPE
set output document type ("html" (default), "texi", "text", or
"dump")
-l LANG, --lang=LANG
set input document language
-o KW=VAL, --option=KW=VAL
set keyword option for the parser class constructor
-d DEBUG, --debug=DEBUG
set debug level (0..100)
-D, --dump
dump parse tree and exit; similar to --type=dump
-b URL, --base-url=URL
set base url
Note: when using --base-url or passing URL as an argument (2nd and 3rd
use cases above), if the URL is in 'wikipedia.org' or 'wiktionary.org'
domain, the options --input-type, and --lang are set automatically.
EXAMPLES
wikitrans text.wiki
wikitrans --base-url http://en.wiktionary.org door
wikitrans https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Export/door
AUTHOR
wikitrans was written by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
This manual page was written by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <aelmah-
moudy@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).
Aug 24, 2018 WIKITRANS(1)
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