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Asked: 2026-06-12T17:12:52+00:00

I got some error when editing a Mediawiki instance using Emacs with mediawiki.el Versions

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I got some error when editing a Mediawiki instance using Emacs with mediawiki.el

Versions of softwares:

OS: Mac
Emacs: GNU Emacs 24.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
mediawiki-el: The comment text says “2.2.3” and the function definition says 2.2.4 (inconsistent?) 

...
;; Version: 2.2.3
;; Created: Sep 17 2004
;; Keywords: mediawiki wikipedia network wiki
;; URL: http://launchpad.net/mediawiki-el
;; Last Modified: <2012-05-27 22:06:10 mah>

(defconst mediawiki-version "2.2.4"
  "Current version of mediawiki.el")
...

When I try to connect to a mediawiki site, I get error

Posting to: http://en.wikipedia.org/api.php
Contacting host: en.wikipedia.org:80
xml-parse-tag: XML: (Not Well-Formed) Invalid end tag (expecting link) at pos 3712

I have in .emacs the following

'(mediawiki-site-alist (quote (("Wikipedia" "http://en.wikipedia.org/" "foobar" "" "XXX"))))

Any idea how to fix it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It seems it’s a compatibility issue between mediawiki.el 2.2.4 and GNU Emacs 24.*, at least the one installed via Mac Ports under port emacs-app @24.1_0. I suspect this because if I roll back to emacs-app @23.4.1, the problem immediately goes away.

    To roll back to earlier version of Emacs via Mac Ports:

    $ sudo port installed emacs-app
The following ports are currently installed:
  emacs-app @23.3_3
  emacs-app @23.3_4
  emacs-app @23.4_0
  emacs-app @23.4_1
  emacs-app @24.1_0
  emacs-app @24.2_0+fullscreen+inline+patches
  emacs-app @24.2_1+fullscreen+inline+patches (active)
$ sudo port activate emacs-app @23.4_1
--->  Computing dependencies for emacs-app
--->  Deactivating emacs-app @24.1_0
--->  Cleaning emacs-app
--->  Activating emacs-app @23.4_1
--->  Cleaning emacs-app
$ sudo port activate emacs-app @24.1_0
--->  Computing dependencies for emacs-app
--->  Deactivating emacs-app @23.3_4
--->  Cleaning emacs-app
--->  Activating emacs-app @24.1_0
--->  Cleaning emacs-app

    Is editing an Mediawiki instance with Emacs that obscure a practice? It seems if one uses Emacs and edits any Mediawiki pages sufficiently frequently, bringing the two in one place would be an intuitional need.

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