wikiextractor/ChangeLog

2015-09-29  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: fixed argparse default.
	(load_templates): save also modules, for a future release capaple
	of applying them.

2015-09-14  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (Extractor.templateParams): allow space in key
	(process_dump): terminate by joining processes rather than queues.

	* WikiExtractor.py (process_dump): eliminated ordering_queue in
	favor of termination signals to jobs_queue.

2015-09-13  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (process_dump): queue.put() dropped second arg
	True, since it is the default.
	(process_dump): queue renamed to jobs_queue.
	(main): restored default bytes to 1M.
	Dropped confusing option to write to a single file: use -o - for that.

2015-08-30  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): check presence of title element in
	single article.
	(load_templates): reconstruct the template namespace from the
	title of the first template in the saved templates.
	(define_template): match also #redirect as used in French.

2015-06-02  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (Extractor.expandTemplate): extend frame before
	subst(), since there may be recursion in default parameter value,
	e.g. {{OTRS|celebrative|date=April 2015}} in article 21637542 in
	enwiki.

2015-05-06  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): fixed arg.namespaces.
	(compact): use fillvalue=' ' in izip_longest.

2015-04-26  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (clean): use re.U when matching \W or chinese
	characters will be lost.

2015-04-25  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (sharp_expr): use unicode() instread od str()
	or else chinese article 596814 fails.
	(splitParameters): use findMatchingBraces istead of findBalanced,
	to properly handle {{{4|{{{{{subst|}}}CURRENTYEAR}}}}
	(Extractor.extract): handle currentyear, currentmonth and currentday

2015-04-23  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: make UTF-8 the default encoding

2015-04-22  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (replaceInternalLinks): function for replacing
	internal links, modeled after MediaWiki original.
	(replaceExternalLinks): revised taking into account the former.
	(replaceInternalLinks): fix to nested iterator.

2015-04-20  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (findBalanced): dropped optional arguments.
	(make_anchor_tag): dont use splitParameters() since we must
	consider also single [, which do not count ib parameters.
	(sharp_switch): use split() to split at fist = sign.
	(main): grouped command options.
	(main): removed option -B.
	(Template): class used to represent templates. It provides a method
	for parameter subsitution.
	Templats are parsed on demand when used and stored in a cache.

2015-04-19  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (clean): use dropNext to drop discardElements.
	(discardElements): added div.
	(compact): avoid duplicated header line with optio --sections.
	(compact): skip empty list items.
	(main): changed logger format.
	(ignoredTags): added abbr.
	(clean): handle extension SyntaxHighlight.
	(main): use % parameters in logging.
	(main): added option --html, that subsumes --links and --sections
	for producing HTML output instead of plain text.
	(Extractor): moved here variables keepLinks, keepSections, toHTML.
	(compact): modified to produce HTML lists.

2015-04-18  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (compact): strip lists of initial characters.

2015-04-17  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (sharp_switch): fixed handling of default.
	(uc, lc, ucfirst, lcfirst): parser functions.

2015-04-16  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (MagicWords): dealing with MagicWords.
	This required rewriting code as methods of class Extractor, since
	some MagicWords are document related and are being handled in
	different threads, hence thay canot be globals.
	(findMatchingBraces): fix to ambiguities resolution.
	(clean): fixed dealing with trail for make_anchor-tag()
	(substParameter): expand defaultValue only if used.
	(selfClosing_tag_patterns): avoid matching besides tag end..

2015-04-15  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (expandTemplates): increase depth only when
	calling expandTemplate()
	(define_template): removed \n in onlyincludeAccumulator, drop
	<noinclude> always.
	(sharp_invoke): restored support for #invoke, by adding parameter
	frame to expandTemplate.
	(main): allow specifying G in --bytes.
	(make_anchor_tag): urlencode link.
	(wikiLink): properly match anchor.
	(make_anchor_tag): use splitParameters to separate parts of link.
	(splitParameters): include pair [], since arguments may contain
	wikilinks.

2015-04-14  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (clean): dropped removal of preformatted lines,
	since it is hard to distinguich them, since templates may
	introdice lines with starting blanks.
	(discardElements) added 'small'.
	(ignoredTags) removed 'small'.
	(make_anchor_tag): fixed RE for wikiLink.
	(sharp_expr): added infix operators.
	(Infix): support for infix operators.
	(Extractor.extract): moved here logging of document being processed.
	(clean): rewritten handling of wikilinks since using RE is to slow.
	(maxTemplateRecursionLevels): increased to 30.

2015-04-13  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (findMatchingBraces): rewritten to handle
	ambiguities.
	(substParameter): only evaluate name and default.
	(main): fixed option --article.

2015-04-12  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (ExtractorThread): enabled multithread version.
	(findMatchingBraces): handle isolated braces.
	(expandTemplates): recurse on result from expandTemplate().

2015-04-11  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (sharp_switch): deal properly with #default.
	(OutputSplitter): update to new-style classes

	* WikiExtractor.py (selfClosingTags): added nowiki.

	* WikiExtractor.py (bold_italic, bold): allow single quote inside,
	e.g. '''[[Chinese New Year|New Year's Eve]]'''.

	* WikiExtractor.py (templateParams): fix pattern to match
	parameter name.

	* WikiExtractor.py (substParameter): use splitParameters()

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): added --no-templates option.

	* WikiExtractor.py (substParameter): added parameter param_depth
	to control depth of parameter expansion, separately from depth,
	used for template expansion.

2015-04-10  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (callParserFunction): return '' also in case of
	failure.

2015-04-09  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (expandTemplates): replaced frame parameter with
	depth, used to limit max template recursion.

2015-04-07  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): added --debug option.

2015-01-24  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (splitParameters): rewritten template
	processing by performing proper parsing of all balanced
	expressions in templates invocation and expansion, using iterator
	findBalanced().

2015-01-18  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (expandTemplates): template expansion now working.

2015-01-11  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (externalLink): replaced .* with appropriate
	[^x]* here and elsewhere.

2015-01-10  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): added option --article for processing a
	single article.
	(main): get dump rm file rather than frpm stdin, so that
	preprocessing does not need to save data to temp file.

2014-02-25  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (ignoreTag): make / optional.

2013-12-15  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (clean): added template expansion

2013-10-14  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: added wiktionary and wikt to the namespaces
	(used e.g. in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12)

2013-05-09  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): handle properly keepLinks option.

2013-04-05  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (compact): keep lines ending with ':'.

2013-04-02  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: obtain prefix from dump.

2013-01-27  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (WikiDocument): add newline after <doc>.
	Release version 2.3.

2012-12-30  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (process_data): added patch by Humberto
	Pereira, who claims a 10x improvement in speed.
	(main): added option to set acceptedNamespaces

2012-11-01  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (get_url): create URL from Id instead than from title.

2012-06-28  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (OutputSplitter.reserve): added method to
	invoke before writing.
	(WikiDocument): use reserve() before writing whole page.
	(main): added version number and option -v.

2012-05-17  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (main): added option to preserve sections as
	HTML headers and lists as <LI>.

2012-05-08  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: Released version 2.0.

	* test/test.xml: added sample to test hard cases for extractor.

	* WikiExtractor.py (dropNested): Completely rewritten to be more
	compliant to WikiMedia Markup language.
	Use proper parsing fuctions to handle nested structures.
	Improved performance by reducing creation of lists and strings.
	Use htmlentitydefs instead of hand crafted list.
	Added parameter -b to set URL for site.
	Extensive use of RegExpr instead of specific string tests.
	Deal with preformatted text.
	Added parameter accepetedNamespaces to select namespaces to retain
	in page titles or wiki links.
	TODO:
	1. handle Template expansion. See WikiPrep
	   (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep/)
	2. Use full parser in order to better deal with nested and
	   unbalanced expressions.

2011-02-10  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: added Copyright.

2012-02-15  Stefano Dei Rossi  <deirossi@semawiki.di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (WikiExtractor): &nbsp; replaced with a simple space
	instead of u'\u00A0'.

2009-11-03  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: updated version to 1.6 (Oct 17).

2009-10-17  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py: turned prefix into a parameter.

2009-07-29  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (init): fixed bugs in apostrophe_bold_pattern and
	apostrophe_italic_pattern.

2009-07-28  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (__garbage_namespaces): added "file" namespace to
	remove list.

2009-07-10  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (get_wiki_document_url): changed the handling of
	URL prefix (anchors don't use prefix but a relative URLs).

2009-06-26  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (extract_document): changed the handling of
	wikilinks, adding an anchor tag for each link with a reference to the
	Wikipedia document.

	* WikiExtractor.py (WikiExtractor): changed the handling of
	placeholders: from "[Formula 12]" to "formula_12".

2009-04-06  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* WikiExtractor.py (init): fixed bugs in apostrophe_bold_pattern and
	apostrophe_italic_pattern.

	* WikiExtractor.py (compact): drop lines ending with ':'
	(these are sentences preceding list items); fixed some bugs.

	* WikiExtractor.py: released version 1.1.

2009-03-12  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py (main): removed the sentence splitting option.

	* wiki-extractor.py: fixed some bugs; released version 1.0; changed
	filename to "Wiki-Extractor.py" according to Tanl module names.

2009-03-01  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py (main): added cross platform path management.

2008-12-12  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py: fixed a wrong cleaning of apostrophes prior
	italic and bold text.

2008-10-27  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py: script complete rewriting (ver 0.8).

2008-10-27  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py: added CopyLeft.

2008-07-20  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py (main): renamed option gzip to bzip.

	* wiki-extractor.py (Document.__str__): removed global variables.

	* wiki-extractor.py (Document): turned split_sentences, clean_document,
	print_document into methods.

2008-07-15  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py: changed object serialization using standard
	pickle module.

2008-06-28  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py: added the management of italics with a bad format.

2008-06-27  Antonio Fuschetto  <fuschett@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py: fixed a wrong use of conversion between conding;
	added the management of wikilink with a bad format; added the
	menagement of unicode character (numeric entity); added the management
	of italics like quoted text.

2008-06-26  Giuseppe Attardi  <attardi@di.unipi.it>

	* wiki-extractor.py (main): turned global variables _infile and
	_outfile into locals.