Manual:Pywikipediabot/table2wiki.py

This page was moved from MetaWiki.
It probably requires cleanup – please feel free to help out. In addition, some links on the page may be red; respective pages might be found at Meta. Remove this template once cleanup is complete.

Subversion repository of Wikimedia has this file:

table2wiki.py

Pywikipediabot scripts
Pywikipediabot Overview Quick Start Guide Installation Installation (Mac) Configuration user-config.py Non-Wikimedia wikis Tutorial Scripts Development Further help

Table2wiki.py is part of the Pywikipedia bot framework.

Converts HTML-tables to MediaWiki's language.

Examples

Example of the simplest syntax:

table2wiki.py "article name"

In this example, only 1 article is changed.

The process can also take place automatically, to do this a xml dump is needed:

table2wiki.py -xml:20050406_cur_table.xml -lang:en 

-xml = name of the xml dump.

Note: Every change needs to be checked. This bot can make mistakes.