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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

