MediaWiki-API This module provides an interface between perl and the MediaWiki API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) allowing creation of scripts to automate editing and extraction of data from MediaWiki driven sites like Wikipedia. STANDARD INSTALLATION This module requires the following perl modules LWP::UserAgent URI::Escape JSON Encode Carp and optionally JSON::XS for faster JSON decoding. To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install CREATING DEBIAN PACKAGE / INSTALLING ON DEBIAN Please note that Debian squeeze and Ubuntu Karmic already have a package with this module. Note that this module requires the packages libwww-perl, libjson-perl, and optionally libjson-xs-perl for faster JSON decoding. On a debian system, you can easily generate a debian package to install. To do this make sure you have the package "dh-make-perl" installed. Unpack the MediaWiki-API-x.xx.tar.gz and run dh-make-perl dpkg-buildpackage If everything works successfully you should have a deb file created in the parent folder. SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc MediaWiki::API You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=MediaWiki-API AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/MediaWiki-API CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/MediaWiki-API Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/MediaWiki-API COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2009 Jools Wills This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .