Wikipedia:WikipediaFS
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WikipediaFS is a virtual filesystem which allows users to view and edit Wikipedia (or any Mediawiki-based site) articles as if they were real files on a local disk drive.
WikipediaFS is implemented in Python and uses the FUSE kernel module.
WikipediaFS works by sending HTTP requests to the selected site when a file is accessed. Reading a file corresponds to a GET HTTP request, writing to a POST HTTP request.
[edit] Advantages
- Editing a long Wikipedia article can sometimes turn out to be painful and time-consuming due to web-forms limitations. Instead, when WikipediaFS is mounted on a directory, articles become like real files in that directory: it is thus possible to use a text-editor to edit files.
[edit] Issues
- Does not currently work with subpages due to syntax conflict (a unix filename cannot have a forward slash in it, but wiki subpages can),
- Must know name of page to edit (no direct directory view).
