WikipediaFS
Sign in to saveWikipediaFS is a virtual filesystem which allows users to view and edit the articles of any MediaWiki-based site as if they were real files on a local disk drive. This enables a user to edit articles directly with any text editor. WikipediaFS is developed primarily by Mathieu Blondel on SourceForge.net.
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Vinony's link graph records 1 inbound reference to WikipediaFS, and connects out to Python, Linux and operating system.
It sits within the topics Products articles with topics of unclear notability and Wikipedia.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Named after
- Wikipedia
- Official website
- wikipediafs.sourceforge.net
- Has use
- file system
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- source code repository URL
- svn.code.sf.net/p/wikipediafs/code
- software version identifier
- 0.4
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- See also
- References
- External links
WikipediaFS is a virtual filesystem which allows users to view and edit the articles of any MediaWiki-based site as if they were real files on a local disk drive. This enables a user to edit articles directly with any text editor. WikipediaFS is developed primarily by Mathieu Blondel on SourceForge.net.
WikipediaFS is implemented in Python and uses the FUSE kernel module. The file system works by lazily downloading and uploading article sourcetexts — only 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.)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WikipediaFS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.