Editing Help:Text editor support (section)

===Command-line tools===
Some [[command line interface|command line]] tools allow you to download articles, edit them using your favorite text editor, and upload the edited articles back into Wikipedia (or into any MediaWiki server). This bypasses the need for a web browser. These are (at least):

* [http://search.cpan.org/~markj/WWW-Mediawiki-Client/bin/mvs mvs], a [[Perl]] program available from [[CPAN]]. [[Meta:WWW::Mediawiki::Client]] has more information. Unfortunately, mvs uses the name of the local file as the title of the page for the wiki remote server. If you need title pages in UTF-8 for Russian, Japanese or Arabic for example, you won't be able to upload such files. It seems that Mediawiki::Client as well as Perl libraries are not enough advanced in managing UTF-8 characters to be fully operational, even if your terminal and shell are correctly set for UTF-8. But see [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libwww-mediawiki-client-perl Debian bug reports].

* [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot]] is an extensive library and set of utilities for doing innumerable things with Wikipedia. It can also do something as simple as editing Wikipedia pages. It has some ways to avoid transmitting titles in UTF-8 wrongly, for example it allows to incorporate the name of the title ''within'' the file itself and to use another command line tool. The local filename could then be written in simple ASCII. Here is an example of a file, named locally 'foo.wiki', using pagefromfile.py (from [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot]]):
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{{-start-}}'''Демография''', или наука о народонаселении, изучает численность, состав, размещение и движение населения.
{{-stop-}}

{{-start-}}'''人口学'''はヒトの人口の科学的研究をいい、主としてその大きさ、構造、そしてその成長発展を研究対象とする。
{{-stop-}}

{{-start-}}'''Demography''' is the scientific study of human populations primarily with respect to their size, their structure and their development.
{{-stop-}}

{{-start-}}'''الديمغرافية''': علم يتناول دراسة المجتمعات البشرية من حيث حجومها و بناها و تطورها و خصائصها العامة و لا سيما من النواحي الكمية.
{{-stop-}}
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In the above example, the command line to upload the four pages in one submission (the 'start' and 'stop' markups drive successively the four different pages Демография, 人口学, Demography and الديمغرافية) is:
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  python pagefromfile.py -file:foo.wiki
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