WikipediaFS

<h2 id="advantages">Advantages</h2>
<ul><li>Editing a long Wikipedia article can sometimes turn out to be painful and time-consuming due to web-forms limitations. Instead, when WikipediaFS is mounted on a directory, articles become like real files in that directory: it is thus possible to use a text-editor to edit files. Text-editors are generally more stable and less sluggish than browsers and have useful features such as spell checking and wiki <a href="/facts/Syntax_highlighting/cLCr5a6w">syntax highlighting</a>.</li>
<li>It is possible to write programs or bots transparently as if they dealt with simple files because WikipediaFS takes care of the HTTP layer. For example, WikipediaFS could be used to perform a massive <a href="/facts/Content_migration/yRJeK89x">content migration</a> from one MediaWiki site to another.</li></ul>
<h2 id="disadvantages">Disadvantages</h2>
<ul><li>The project is no longer maintained as of 2007; the software has since been deprecated.</li>
<li>It is difficult to go from-page-to-page; users must know the exact name of a page in order to edit it, as WikipediaFS has no local knowledge of what pages exist and which don't.</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Wikifs/NLNoq8mI">Wikifs</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net">Official website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors">MediaWiki Manual:External editors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120723153458/http://www.mobiphil.com/2009/07/wikipediafs-proposal-for-improvement/">proposals for improvement</a></li>
<li><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/wikipediafs">Collection of all available patches</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129175749/https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/wikipediafs">Archived</a> 2023-11-29 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Striegel, Jason (6 May 2007). "WikipediaFS – a Linux MediaWiki file-system". MAKE. Retrieved 2012-02-10. <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/2007/05/06/wikipediafs-a-linux-mediawiki/" target="_blank">http://blog.makezine.com/2007/05/06/wikipediafs-a-linux-mediawiki/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"WikipediaFS 0.3 released". www.mblondel.org/journal/ Mathieu's log: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing...... 2007-05-27. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2016-04-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120218223109/http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2007/05/27/wikipediafs-03-released/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120218223109/http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2007/05/27/wikipediafs-03-released/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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