tbayer/etherpad2wiki

Tiny Python script to convert an Etherpad into a wiki page

A tiny Python script to export the content of an Etherpad in a form that is suitable for posting as a wiki page, avoiding the issue that subsequent lines blend into one because MediaWiki treats newlines differently.

Basically, it adds "<br />" tags to the end of every line of the Etherpad, except those where MediaWiki will keep the line break anyway when parsing it as wikitext (e.g. after a line that starts with "*").

Optionally it embeds pages of a PDF file from Wikimedia Commons where indicated ("[slide]" is replaced by an embedding of page n).

Developed to publish minutes and slides from the Wikimedia Foundation's quarterly review team meetings.

Usage: etherpad2wiki.py sourceurl outputfile.txt [slidesfilename]

Based on https://github.com/tbayer/wikibrs

To avoid getting yourself into trouble when using this for Wikipedia articles, consider looking at the essay "Don't use line breaks" first ;)