leslie

A rotating MediaWiki client

Usage

java leslie.Main
 -c FILE : Credentials file
 -p FILE : Source pages file
 -s FILE : State file
 -t VAL  : Target page
 -w URL  : MediaWiki API endpoint
 -e VAL  : Edit comment

Files

Leslie uses three different files :

• Credentials in a Java properties format with thow keys : username and password ;
• A list of page names to use as sources, one per line ;
• A state file containing the index (beginning at 0) of the last successfully used source page.

If the state file is missing, a warning is issued and the file is initialized with the value 0. The other two files must be present.

Examples

Credentials

username=Whoever
password=Whatever

Source pages

Project:Whatever/Page/A
Project:Whatever/Page/B
Project:Whatever/Page/C

State

2

Other parameters

• The target page parameter is the name of the page to be overwritten with the content of the so-called source pages, at each run ;
• The API endpoint is described here : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_agent#The_endpoint ;
• An optional edit comment.