Parse-MediaWikiDump Parse::MediaWikiDump is a collection of classes for processing various MediaWiki dump files such as those at http://download.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/; the package requires XML::Parser. Using this software it is nearly trivial to get access to the information in supported dump files. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install EXAMPLE Extract the text for a given article from the given dump file: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Parse::MediaWikiDump; my $file = shift(@ARGV) or die "must specify a MediaWiki dump of the current pages"; my $title = shift(@ARGV) or die "must specify an article title"; my $dump = Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages->new($file); binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8'); binmode(STDERR, ':utf8'); #this is the only currently known value but there could be more in the future if ($dump->case ne 'first-letter') { die "unable to handle any case setting besides 'first-letter'"; } #enforce the MediaWiki case rules $title = case_fixer($title); #iterate over the entire dump file, article by article while(my $page = $dump->page) { if ($page->title eq $title) { print STDERR "Located text for $title\n"; my $text = $page->text; print $$text; exit 0; } } print STDERR "Unable to find article text for $title\n"; exit 1; #removes any case sensativity from the very first letter of the title #but not from the optional namespace name sub case_fixer { my $title = shift; #check for namespace if ($title =~ /^(.+?):(.+)/) { $title = $1 . ':' . ucfirst($2); } else { $title = ucfirst($title); } return $title; } COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2005 Tyler Riddle, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.