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Wiki2Tei converter 1.0
We are pleased to announce the first release of the Wiki2Tei software. Wiki2Tei is a converter from the mediawiki format to XML (TEI vocabulary).
The mediawiki format is used by wikimedia fundation wikis (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource), and many other wikis using the mediawiki software. Large amounts of free hight-quality structured texts are available in this format. These texts are used more and more often in NLP (natural language processing) projects. However, the mediawiki parser is oriented towards rendition and the mediawiki syntax is complex and hard to parse.
The Wiki2Tei converter makes available the information contained in wiki syntax (structuration, highlighting, etc.), and allows to properly retrieve the plain text. This conversion is intended to preserve all the properties of the original text. Wiki2Tei is closely coupled with the mediawiki software, allowing to convert all the features of the mediawiki syntax.
The Wiki2Tei converter provides a rich set of tools for converting mediawiki text from several sources (file, mediawiki database) and managing collections of files to be converted. The TEI vocabulary used is documented, according to the TEI Guidelines, in an ODD document. The code is open source and may be downloaded from the SourceForge download area:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wiki2tei/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=198407The web site contains full documentation and a “demo”:
http://wiki2tei.sourceforge.net/
http://wiki2tei.sourceforge.net/demo/A mailing list is open:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wiki2tei-users
Best,
Bernard Desgraupes,
Sylvain Loiseau