Re: Edit Wikipedia Article directly in Emacs?

[Jonas Damm <mailing@jonas-damm.de>]

Thanks,

I understand, that this is not a good idea.
Too bad, but at least I will draft it in org first.

Jonas
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 11:57, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
>> * Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> [2023-06-28 17:28]:
>> > I am not sure how good of an idea this is, to my recollection Wikipedia
>> > markup is fairly specific and it is not easy to map between different
>> > markup formats without loosing too much information.
>>
>> Just to mention that command line:
>>
>> pandoc -f org -t mediawiki MYFILE.org
>>
>> is to convert Org to Mediawiki format.
>
> The specifics of Mediawiki is that you can have templates that
> effectively extend the markup language, and this is widely used in
> Wikipedia and its sister wikis. A quick experiment shows that Pandoc
> silently drops most template inclusions. So if you take the source of
> a wiki page, convert it to Org with pandoc, edit it in Org, then
> convert back to mediawiki format and save, you will annoy moderators,
> who will then be tempted to just revert your change without spending
> time to pick out useful parts from overall formatting destruction.