MediaWiki::Gateway

A Ruby framework for MediaWiki API manipulation. Features out of the box:

• Simple, elegant syntax for common operations
• Handles login, edit, move etc tokens for you
• List, search operations work around API limits to fetch all results
• Support for maxlag detection and automated retries on 503
• Integrated logging
• Tested up to MediaWiki 1.16

Gem: rubygems.org/gems/mediawiki-gateway RDoc: rubydoc.info/gems/mediawiki-gateway Git: github.com/jpatokal/mediawiki-gateway

Example

Simple page creation script:

 require 'media_wiki'
 mw = MediaWiki::Gateway.new('http://my-wiki.example/w/api.php')
 mw.login('RubyBot', 'pa$$w0rd')
 mw.create('PageTitle', 'Hello world!', 'Comment: My first page')

Credits

Maintained by Jani Patokallio.

Thanks to John Carney, Mike Williams, Daniel Heath and the rest of the Lonely Planet Atlas team.