To get very simple help for MVS, either use `man mvs` or `mvs --help`.

The following set of intstructions is the quickest way to get you up and
running with editing the English Wikipedia. If you want to edit another
MediaWiki, change the hostnames in the appropriate places.

Step 1: make a directory to store pages from this Mediawiki instance

  mkdir en-wp
  cd en-wp

Step 2: log in to the host with your username/password

  mvs login -d wikipedia.org -l en -u 'Benjamin Mako Hill' -p password

Step 3: download a page that you want to edit by adding ".wiki" to the end

  mvs update Granrojo.wiki

Step 4: edit the file to make changes

  vim Granrojo.wiki

Step 5: preview your changes

  mvs preview Granrojo.wiki

Step 6: commit your changes into the wiki

  mvs commit --minor yes -m 'made spelling fix' Granrojo.wiki

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Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@debian.org>  Sun,  3 Sep 2006 19:58:29 -0400