> it'd be cool to build a working MediaWiki + Markdown => LaTeX converter....in something like Python.
For parsing MediaWiki in Python, check out mwlib [1], which was part of cooperation between Wikimedia Foundation and PediaPress. It's neither very complete nor very fast, but you might be able to hack up some LaTeX conversion with it.
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> it'd be cool to build a working MediaWiki + Markdown => LaTeX converter....in something like Python.
For parsing MediaWiki in Python, check out mwlib [1], which was part of cooperation between Wikimedia Foundation and PediaPress. It's neither very complete nor very fast, but you might be able to hack up some LaTeX conversion with it.
[1] http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/mwlib