Remove Wikipedia references from HTML
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Revision as of 11:12, 12 July 2011 by Philip Schrodt (talk | contribs)
The Problem Being Solved
Text that was originally sourced from Wikipedia will have a large number of references that detract from the flow of the text when it is printed. This "perl one-liner" removes the Wikipedia references from an HTML file downloaded from FireFoxwhile leaving other references intact. It was tested on a Macintosh but the perl code is general and should also work on Windows (either as is or in some minor modification that it would be helpful for someone to test/contribute)
The Code
The following code will remove all of the Wikipedia references
1. Use the "File/Save Page As..." to save the page to a file myfile.html
2. In the Terminal, run
perl -npe 's/<a href=\"http:\/\/en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki.+?>(.+?)<\/a>/$1/g' myfile.html > mynicefile.html
3. Use "File/Open File" to open the new file, which you can then print.
Example
These will take you to pdf files printed from FireFox showing the before and after versions of a file
Original file: File:Dewikify.OriginalFile.pdf
Modified file: File:Dewikify.NewFile.pdf
Original code: Philip Schrodt 10:49, 12 July 2011 (PDT)