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Wikitext is a document written in a wiki markup language, used on Mediawiki sites such as wikipedia.org.

From MediaWiki.org:

Wikitext is a document written in a wiki markup language, such as the current one explained in Help:Editing (see also Markup spec/DTD). It is a mixture of content, markup, and metadata. The current and old versions of all pages of a wiki are stored in the database in the text table, in the form of wikitext.

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Convert MediaWiki wikitext format to HTML using command line

I tend to write a good amount of documentation so the MediaWiki format to me is easy for me to understand plus it saves me a lot of time than having to write traditional HTML. I, however, also write a blog and find that switching from keyboard to…
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Get first paragraph (and only text) of a Wikipedia article returns not desired result

I'm trying to retrieve the first paragraph of text for an article of Wikipedia, UNIX in this example, but it returns me a non-desired output. For what I've been reading on the Wikipedia api and here on StackOverflow, this is the request URL to make…
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Parsing wikimedia markup - are EBNF-based parsers poorly suited?

I am attempting to parse (in Java) Wikimedia markup as found on Wikipedia. There are a number of existing packages out there for this task, but I have not found any to fit my needs particularly well. The best package I have worked with is the…
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Wikitext editor for OS X

Could anyone suggest a Wikitext editor for OS X? My company uses MediaWiki extensively and I am looking for more of an IDE-like text editor I can use offline.
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How does one parse simple inline markup (i.e. *bold*), in Python?

How does one implement a parser (in Python) for a subset of wikitext that modifies text, namely: *bold*, /italics/, _underline_ I'm converting it to LaTeX, so the conversion is from: Hello, *world*! Let's /go/. to: Hello \textbf{world}! Let's…
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Parsing wikiText with regex in Java

Given a wikiText string such as: {{ValueDescription |key=highway |value=secondary |image=Image:Meyenburg-L134.jpg |description=A highway linking large towns. |onNode=no |onWay=yes |onArea=no |combination= *…
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How to use Parsoid to convert wikitext to html (instead of a full html page with extra info)

Both parsoid and parsoid-jsapi give you a .parse(... function to parse wikitext to html, but I'm having trouble getting a clean html string. Say I want to parse This is [[it]] I do this: var parsoid = require('parsoid-jsapi') ||…
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How to use MediaWiki::DumpFile to convert Wikipedia XML dump to HTML?

On page MediaWiki::DumpFile following code is present: use MediaWiki::DumpFile; $mw = MediaWiki::DumpFile->new; $sql = $mw->sql($filename); $sql = $mw->sql(\*FH); $pages = $mw->pages($filename); $pages = $mw->pages(\*FH); …
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Convert wiki text to html in python for displaying in a website

I know there are many questions on this topic but After 6 hours of try-this-and-try-that-tool, I still can't find a single tool that takes wikitext of the form '
Welcome to the world's foremost open content
'''Organic…
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Bulk convert Media Wiki pages to HTML (either via API or locally from saved wikitext)

I'm trying to get the actual HTML of about 600-700 pages hosted on a Media Wiki. I have thought of/tried the following: Option 1 Action API with action=parse: works well, takes about 0.75 seconds per page. I haven't been able to do this for multiple…
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Is it possible to add css for mobile in fandom wiki?

The mobile version of the fandom wikis are very restricted, and actively strips away all style tags from html elements. I tried to define styles in MediaWiki:Common.css and that works on desktop, but it does not apply on mobile. I have also tried to…
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How to train GPT2 with Huggingface trainer

I am trying to fine tune GPT2, with Huggingface's trainer class. from datasets import load_dataset import torch from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast, GPT2LMHeadModel, Trainer,…
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What is the best way to expand the wikitexts of a full Wikipedia dump?

It is easy to download dumps of Wikipedia in XML format. However, the content of the articles are written in wikitext, which has a template system. To extract clean full texts from these dumps, it is necessary to expand these templates. Wikipedia…
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Parsoid - parse wikitext locally

Is that even possible? I am not sure, if I understand the project properly. I am trying to parse a big amount of wikitext into html using the Parsoid-JSAPI project. Parsing works fine, but it is still calling the wikimedia API. I have run the…
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Working example of wikitext-to-HTML in ANTLR 3

I'm trying to flesh out a wikitext-to-HTML translator in ANTLR 3, but I keep getting stuck. Do you know of a working example that I can inspect? I tried the MediaWiki ANTLR grammar and the Wiki Creole grammar, but I can't get them to generate the…
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