Bug#772511: RFP: libmediawiki-dumpfile-perl -- used to parse various dump files from a MediaWiki instance

[Matanya Moses <matanya@foss.co.il>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : libmediawiki-dumpfile-perl
  Version         : 0.2.2 
  Upstream Author : Tyler Riddle <triddle@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/~triddle/MediaWiki-DumpFile-0.2.2/lib/MediaWiki/DumpFile.pm
* License         : GPL, Artistic
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : used to parse various dump files from a MediaWiki instance

This module is used to parse various dump files from a MediaWiki instance. The most likely case is that you will want to be parsing content at http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html provided by WikiMedia which includes the English and all other language Wikipedias.

This module is the successor to Parse::MediaWikiDump acting as a near full replacement in feature set and providing an independent 100% backwards compatible API that is faster than Parse::MediaWikiDump is (see the MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat and MediaWiki::DumpFile::Benchmarks documentation for details).