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Wiki API Access Notes
Revision as of 10:25, 16 February 2016 by Jayjaybillings.gmail.com (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Some Eclipse projects require documentation in multiple formats, a few of which are not standard within the Eclipse community such as LaTeX. Writing the same documentation in...")
Some Eclipse projects require documentation in multiple formats, a few of which are not standard within the Eclipse community such as LaTeX. Writing the same documentation in multiple formats is not sustainable, so ideally some solution could be developed where one canonical format is used and other formats are translations. Then, after the necessary translations are made, any wiki documents could be uploaded by using the MediaWiki api.
Accessing the MediaWiki API
The MediaWiki API for Eclipse.org is available at https://wiki.eclipse.org/api.php. Standard Eclipse.org wiki credentials are required to access the API.
Example with Eclipse ICE
Eclipse ICE uses LaTeX as its base documentation format and [Pandoc]