Re: List of all wikipedia macros

Hi Erick,

What you are calling "macros" are actually called "templates" in the Wikipedia (or, more generally, MediaWiki) context. In Portuguese, the name is "Predefinição."

You can find all the templates on a wiki through the "Special:AllPages" page, and then choose the "Template" or "Predefinição" namespace. 

Here is a direct link. I suspect you will find there are many thousands of templates; breaking that down into those that supply significant text (which I would guess are the majority) vs. those that do not will probably be a difficult task; sorry, I don't have much to offer in that area.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Todas_as_páginas&namespace=10

I hope this helps!
-Pete

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On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Erick Fonseca wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm writing a script to read Wikipedia dump files and generate raw
> text from them, much like it would appear in a web browser.
> At first, I ignored all macros, discarding anything between {{ ... }},
> but I soon learned that some macros generate useful text. Now I need a
> comprehensive list of all existing macros, to know which of them I
> should treat.
> As I believe some macros are language dependent, I am dealing with the
> Portuguese Wikipedia.
> 
> Thank you for any help,
> Erick
> 
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