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Download Articles

With selecting multiple files and folders in the Navigator View and doing a right mouse click you can download and upload files to a Wikipedia site.

Note: especially the upload function is not working properly for every possible character encoding. We only tested UTF-8 encoded sites so far with the plugin. So you probably will get problems with other encodings like for example ISO-8859-1.

Example: grabbing a wikibooks.org article

• create a new index.wp file under your projects /wpsrc directory by doing a right mouse click on the /wpsrc directory and selecting menu New->File. In the appearing dialog box type index.wp for the file name and press the Finish button. In the editors area a file named index.wp should be opened now.
• write a Wiki link definition somewhere in the index.wp editor area, for example write: [[HTML Programming]]
• do a "right mouse" click on the link and select menu Open Wiki Link
• a new file with the wpsrc/HTML_Programming.wp filename should open in the editors area.
• do a "right mouse" click on the new file name in the Navigator View and select menu Wikipedia Download->Refresh Wikipedia from Web

• in the opening dialog box select WikibooksEN Download
• and press the Ok button

• after a while the text should appear in the editor (timeout is set to 30 seconds)
• you can now modifiy the Wikipedia text locally on your PC
• press Ctrl+S to save the downloaded text and the browser preview should refresh

• in the next step you can do a right mouse click in the editor and select the menu Create files for Wiki links
• a dialog appears there you can select for every Wiki link, if a new corresponding file should be created
• for every selected Wiki link in your current document a corresponding file will be generated in the Navigator View

Rules for filename generation

Every Wiki name will be transformed into a filename wih the following rules:

• every space character is replaced by an "_" character (underscore)
• every ":" character (colon) is replaced by a "/" character (slash)

Automatically generated XML download file

If you download a Wikipedia article the action creates or updates a corresponding *.xml file in the /wikibook/wpbin folder which contains information about:

• the title of the article
• the timestamp of the article (important for later updates)
• the contributor of the article
• the article's download text

Grabbing a Category

Open the context menu in the editor (right mouse click):

Input box for the category:

Select the wikibooks.org site:

All wiki articles for the category are shown in a selection dialog. You can select which articles should be created as a file: