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Like the question says, Is there any way to download a compilable tex source from a wikipedia article? Or maybe a tool that generates a tex source from a wikipedia article.

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  • It's in fact to make .pdf versions of it or to export it to plain text (text, not tex!) using the Book Creator –  Sep 03 '15 at 13:19
  • @ChristianHupfer I know that, but wiki's pdf rendering is not exactly the best. I'd prefer more customization – Olayinka Sep 03 '15 at 13:23
  • This isn't really a TeX question: it's about how you get the back-end used by Wikipedia to export as .tex. Not sure it's on-topic for us. – Joseph Wright Sep 03 '15 at 13:24
  • @Olayinka: Well, use the plain text download and edit the text ;-) The LaTeX export seems to be disable for a while already –  Sep 03 '15 at 13:26
  • @JosephWright Or "how to convert a .wiki file to a .tex file. But I'm not sure it makes the question more on-topic for us. – yo' Sep 03 '15 at 13:29
  • @ChristianHupfer Not to sound lazy, but that sounds like hard work. Wikipedia text uses MediaWiki tags and tex markup, a tool to generate tex sources isn't such a bad idea. Might be I'll look into it. There are some good parsers out there https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers – Olayinka Sep 03 '15 at 13:35
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    Perhaps this helps: https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf –  Sep 03 '15 at 13:35
  • @ChristianHupfer Thanks! I'll try that tool and give a feedback – Olayinka Sep 03 '15 at 13:38

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I have not tried it, but pandoc (see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoc and http://pandoc.org/) can import MediaWiki format as used by Wikipedia and export different flavours of TeX including LaTeX.

Pandoc is free software, released under the GPL.

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