bib2wiki or parsing bibTeX into mediawiki templates
In a previous post, I was discussing a prospective bib2wiki script to automatize the transcription of my bibTeX database to laussy.org (this website). This was over 10 years ago, so I forgot what I did back then. I had to do it again. I was mentioning that I had hacked bibtex2html to get the output I wanted, but for the life of me, I could not remember what I did. It does not seem easy to do with bibtex2html itself. Instead, I turned to Perl.
Using the script by itself does nothing. It needs to be given the keys of the sought entries, separated by a comma. So for instance:
bib2wiki -keys=delvalle12a,delvalle13a
returns
delvalle12a <u>[[Theory of Frequency-Filtered and Time-Resolved $N$-Photon Correlations]]</u>. [[E. del Valle]], [[A. González-Tudela]], [[F. P. Laussy]], [[C. Tejedor]] and [[M. J. Hartmann]] in [[Phys. Rev. Lett.]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.183601 '''109''':183601] ([[2012]]). delvalle13a <u>[[Distilling one, two and entangled pairs of photons from a quantum dot with cavity QED effects and spectral filtering]]</u>. [[E. del Valle]] in [[New J. Phys.]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/025019 '''15''':025019] ([[2013]]).
It does what I want, i.e., links to all that is linkable: the paper itself (if it needs its own page, which special papers do), the authors, the journals, the link to the paper by its doi through its volume:page (this used to be in the title but I thought otherwise to highlight papers) and the year. We also attach the paper itself through a little icon 
if we are authors, as we have the right to do that. It also does not put a comma before "and" that announces the last author, etc.
If one wants all the entries, then:
bib2wiki -keys=all
aaronson04a <u>[[Multilinear formulas and skepticism of quantum computing]]</u>. [[S. Aaronson]] in [[Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1007352.1007378 '''''':] ([[2004]]). aaronson11a <u>[[The computational complexity of linear optics]]</u>. [[S. Aaronson]] and [[A. Arkhipov]] in [[Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1993636.1993682 '''''':333] ([[2011]]). [... 3534 entries there ...] zutic04a <u>[[Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications]]</u>. [[I. Zutic]], [[I. Fabian]] and [[S. Das Sarma]] in [[Rev. Mod. Phys.]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.76.323 '''76''':323] ([[2004]]). zwiller02a <u>[[Correlation spectroscopy of excitons and biexcitons on a single quantum dot]]</u>. [[V. Zwiller]], [[P. Jonsson]], [[H. Blom]], [[S. Jeppesen]], [[M.-E. Pistol]], [[L. Samuelson]], [[A. A. Katznelson]], [[E. Yu. Kotelnikov]], [[V. Evtikhiev]] and [[G. Björk]] in [[Phys. Rev. A]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.053814 '''66''':053814] ([[2002]]).
The idea then is, when writing a text that refers to some references, if those are not yet in the wiki (as templates) then they will appear as broken link in edit mode, in the list of templates used in the page (at the end). It could look something like this:
Copy/past in a file (say templates) on which you run:
cat templates | perl -pe 's/Template:([a-zA-Z]+[0-9]{2}[a-z])\s\(edit\)\.*/\1/p' | sed '/Template/d' | awk -vORS=, '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/,$/\n/'
That will output on one line the list of templates needed:
Kirkwood35a,Kirkwood39a,Kirkwood42a,Kirkwood50a,Lopezcarreno18b,Percus58a,Salsburg53a,Sells53a,Thiele63a,Wertheim63a,Zerniker37a
You can then pass this to bib2wiki
bib2wiki -keys=Kirkwood35a,Kirkwood39a,Kirkwood42a,Kirkwood50a,Lopezcarreno18b,Percus58a,Salsburg53a,Sells53a,Thiele63a,Wertheim63a,Zerniker37a
which will return the list you have to upload:
kirkwood35a <u>[[Statistical Mechanics of Fluid Mixtures]]</u>. [[J. G. Kirkwood]] in [[J. Chem. Phys.]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1749657 '''3''':300] ([[1935]]). kirkwood39a <u>[[Molecular Distribution in Liquids]]</u>. [[J. G. Kirkwood]] in [[J. Chem. Phys.]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1750344 '''7''':919] ([[1939]]). kirkwood42a <u>[[The Radial Distribution Function in Liquids]]</u>. [[J. G. Kirkwood]] and [[E. Monroe]] in [[J. Chem. Phys.]] [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1723737 '''10''':394] ([[1942]]). etc.
Then click the templates and copy/paste the reference. It's fairly fast. I might upgrade it so that bib2wiki uploads the template directly, which was the intention of ten years ago, but it's good to check beforehand as there might have some glitches (not yet supported accents, math mode in the title, etc.)
To upgrade to the new style references that were already present under the different style, one can get the page of all templates and copy the content into the $text variable of the script below:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use Data::Dumper;
$text="
Template:! Template:!/doc Template:!xt
Template:* Template:15th Template:16th
Template:17th Template:18th Template:19th
Template:; Template:= Template:?
Template:AWB standard installation Template:According to whom Template:Alcohol
Template:Alternative links Template:Amo09a Template:Anchor
...
Template:Salsburg53a Template:Sanchezmunoz14a Template:Sanchezmunoz14b
Template:Schrapp12a
Template:Script
Template:Season needed
Template:See Template:Self-published inline Template:Self-published source
";
@arr = ($text =~ /Template:([a-zA-Z]+[0-9]{2}[a-z]*)/g);
foreach (@arr)
{
print("{{Template:" . $_ . "}}\n");
}
That will generate a list which can be put in a sandbox and give access to all the works cited. Then they can be (painfully, but hopefully, only once) updated.
For me on that occasion—and you see I don't even need the sandbox—that was:
{{Template:Amo09a}}
{{Template:Arakawa20a}}
{{Template:Arden14a}}
{{Template:Becher01a}}
{{Template:Bogdanov18a}}
{{Template:Buckley12a}}
{{Template:Carmichael76a}}
{{Template:Degiorgi14a}}
{{Template:Delvalle07a}}
{{Template:Delvalle09a}}
{{Template:Delvalle10d}}
{{Template:Delvalle11a}}
{{Template:Delvalle11d}}
{{Template:Delvalle12a}}
{{Template:Delvalle12b}}
{{Template:Delvalle13a}}
{{Template:Dimartino12a}}
{{Template:Dong07a}}
{{Template:Ekert91a}}
{{Template:Friedrich22a}}
{{Template:Gies15a}}
{{Template:Gonzaleztudela11a}}
{{Template:Gonzaleztudela13a}}
{{Template:Grunwald19a}}
{{Template:Hanschke00a}}
{{Template:Hauke11a}}
{{Template:Hsiao20a}}
{{Template:Jaynes63a}}
{{Template:Kaupp16a}}
{{Template:Kirkwood35a}}
{{Template:Kirkwood39a}}
{{Template:Kirkwood42a}}
{{Template:Kirkwood50a}}
{{Template:Laussy04a}}
{{Template:Laussy06a}}
{{Template:Laussy08a}}
{{Template:Laussy11a}}
{{Template:Laussy11b}}
{{Template:Laussy12a}}
{{Template:Laussy12b}}
{{Template:Laussy12c}}
{{Template:Laussy12d}}
{{Template:Laussy12e}}
{{Template:Laussy17a}}
{{Template:Leifgen14a}}
{{Template:Lopezcarreno16a}}
{{Template:Lopezcarreno17a}}
{{Template:Lopezcarreno18a}}
{{Template:Lopezcarreno18b}}
{{Template:Lukishova12a}}
{{Template:Lukishova14a}}
{{Template:Matsuo90a}}
{{Template:Matthiesen12a}}
{{Template:Michler00a}}
{{Template:Michler00b}}
{{Template:Muller15a}}
{{Template:Nieves18a}}
{{Template:Palaciosberraquero16a}}
{{Template:Peiris15a}}
{{Template:Peiris17a}}
{{Template:Percus58a}}
{{Template:Phillips00a}}
{{Template:Reid86a}}
{{Template:Salsburg53a}}
{{Template:Sanchezmunoz14a}}
{{Template:Sanchezmunoz14b}}
{{Template:Schrapp12a}}
{{Template:Sells53a}}
{{Template:Shore93a}}
{{Template:Silva16a}}
{{Template:Thiele63a}}
{{Template:Tran16a}}
{{Template:Verma11a}}
{{Template:Walls79a}}
{{Template:Walls81a}}
{{Template:Wertheim63a}}
{{Template:Zernike27a}}
{{Template:Zubizarretacasalengua17a}}
which upgraded this reference:
to this one:
