WikipediaFS

{{Short description|Virtual filesystem}}

{{notability|Products|date=March 2019}}

{{Infobox software

| name = WikipediaFS

| caption =

| developer = Mathieu Blondel

| released = {{Start date and age|2006|06|11|df=yes}}

| latest_release_version = 0.4

| latest_release_date = {{start date and age|2010|08|02|df=yes}}

| latest_preview_version = r75{{Cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/p/wikipediafs/code/log|title=WikipediaFS / Code Commit Log}}

| latest_preview_date = {{start date and age|2015|07|10|df=yes}}

| programming_language = Python

| operating_system = Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD

| genre = Filesystem

| license = GNU GPL

| website = {{URL|http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/}}

}}

WikipediaFS is a virtual filesystem which allows users to view and edit the articles of any MediaWiki-based site as if they were real files on a local disk drive. This enables a user to edit articles directly with any text editor.{{cite web |first=Jason |last=Striegel |title=WikipediaFS – a Linux MediaWiki file-system |publisher=MAKE |date=6 May 2007 |url=http://blog.makezine.com/2007/05/06/wikipediafs-a-linux-mediawiki/ |access-date=2012-02-10}} WikipediaFS is developed primarily by Mathieu Blondel on SourceForge.net.{{cite web |url=http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2007/05/27/wikipediafs-03-released/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218223109/http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2007/05/27/wikipediafs-03-released/ |date=2007-05-27 |archive-date=2012-02-18 |access-date=2016-04-17 |title=WikipediaFS 0.3 released |work=www.mblondel.org/journal/ Mathieu's log: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing...... }}

WikipediaFS is implemented in Python and uses the FUSE kernel module. The file system works by lazily downloading and uploading article sourcetexts — only sending HTTP requests to the selected site when a file is accessed. (Reading a file corresponds to a GET HTTP request, writing to a POST HTTP request.)