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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:05:55+00:00

I would like to know on how wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) creates PDF? It seem to

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I would like to know on how wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) creates PDF? It seem to be using some application at the back-end. Could anyone please let me know on how this is done?

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    Wikipedia runs Mediawiki.
    A Google check tells me that they have two PDF extensions.
    This one is the one who’s still mantained: PDF_Writer

    It doesn’t use a PHP HTML→PDF generator, (though there are some)
    It actually does something trickier and more clever.

    The PDF Writer uses the Python Reportlab libraries to generate PDF based on a
    DOM derived from parsing mediawiki-markup using the mwlib parser.

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