🗃️ Pöuli 🐙

Synchronize local files with MediaWiki instances.

ℹ️ About

This tool was originally conceived by Tommi to upload a subset of their personal knowledge repository, the Jam, with their Personal Reader, PaJamas. Hopefully, it can flourish beyond this specific use-case, and be helpful for other XPUB students or wiki adventurers.

✨ Meaning

The name “Pöuli” (equivalent of PoOuli) stands for:

• Practically Often Used Lovely Interface
• Petty yet Outstanding Utility Leading to Integration
• Phenomenal Optimistic Useful Lovely Idea
• Paradoxically Obscure but Unstoppable Link Ignitor

It is the anagram of Oulipo, an eclectic, mad, and maddening collective of artists formed in the ’60s.

+++ IDEA: Writing machine name generator

⏬ Installation

Install poouli’s Python package from the Python Package Index (PyPI), however you prefer.

• By using uv: uv pip install poouli
• By using pip: pip install poouli
• By cloning the source code
  • using SSH: git clone ssh://git@codeberg.org/tommi/poouli.git
  • using HTTPS: git clone https://codeberg.org/tommi/poouli.git

⚙️ Configuration

The initial configuration requires to follow the following steps. It’s cumbersome, I know. If you have tips on how to make it simpler and easier, please open a PR!

1. Generate a Bot Password in MediaWiki:
   1. Visit https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Special:BotPasswords
   2. Generate a bot
   3. Save the chosen bot name and its generated password
2. Run pwb generate_family_file to tell the script that you want to use the XPUB’s wiki as the reference wiki
3. Run pwb generate_user_files to provide the login credentials retrieved while generating a Bot Password
4. Run pwb login to establish the connection and to check if everything is working nominally
5. Create a YAML configuration file in the config directory or in the script’s directory. Here is an example. Add the following data:
   • local_directory: path of the directory for the local files
   • wiki_base_path: the path of the main page within which the local files should be synchronized (can be overwritten by permalink_wiki in each note’s front matter)
   • banner (optional): path to an HTML file to include at the end of all wiki pages published via Pöuli, unless wiki_banner is False in the frontmatter.
   • styling (optional): path to an HTML file to include at the end of all wiki pages published via Pöuli, if and only if wiki_styling is True in the frontmatter.

📡 Usage

Run the script with uv run poouli or just poouli

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Source code

The source code is published in three different forges, all synchronized among themselves.

• The main repository is on 🗻 Codeberg, where you can share any feedback or propose changes to the code.
• A mirror is on the XPUB git forge
• Another mirror is on GitHub

♻️ License

Everything inside this repository is licensed under the European Union Public License.

🤔 To-do list

An unsorted list of things to do. Everything will be moved to proper issue tracking after the first release.

• Handle images
• Get configuration settings from command line arguments, overriding config file instructions
• Links management and testing
  • local → local private
  • local → local public (on tommi.space)
  • local → local synchronized
  • local → Wiki (as a regular https link)
  • Wiki → Jam (as a regular https link to tommi.space)
  • Wiki → Wiki (not part of Pajamas)
  • Wiki → Wiki
  • Anchor links
    • same page
    • another page
• Deal with Categories (see below)
• Note metadata
  • aliases
  • updated
  • wiki_categories
• Move the Wiki information and credentials to the YAML configuration file. Ideally, no scripts or commands should be required to run before the main one.
• test on Windows
• Get wiki pages that are in the specified subpage but are not found locally
• Transclusion
  • transform <includeonly> (and similar) to <div id=includeonly> in Markdown
  • How to transform anchor transclusions in MediaWiki? It’s not supported
• Exclude JSON and YAML files from the source directory
• Test how references and foonotes work
• Add dict and instructions about how the script works