bug#18687: mw 0.1: modular MediaWiki interface for Emacs

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

"Mark A. Hershberger" <mah@everybody.org> writes:

> I'm not sure about mw.el, but Emacs could benefit from a client of the
> MediaWiki API. My own mediawiki-el could (it has some bugs that need to
> be address, and it needs to be updated for the Login API) be used to
> edit MediaWiki sites (including Wikipedia) from within emacs.

Interesting.  If you would like to submit your package to GNU ELPA, I
would suggest fixing the outstanding bugs you mention and sending it
to emacs-devel.

> There are Org Export methods that allow you to transform org files into
> Wikitext and, using the MW API, you could use the export to set up
> MediaWiki as a readable copy of your org files.  Or, you could edit MW
> pages using the Org syntax in emacs, using the MW API to publish them to
> the wiki.

Thanks for the description.  I almost never edit mediawiki pages, but
it sure sounds better to edit them in Emacs than in the web browser.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas