From: Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:40:18 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: updated README file
X-Git-Url: https://code.communitydata.science/mediawiki_dump_tools.git/commitdiff_plain/4729371d5ab057b5d028d5ca9b7aeafd7bc40478?ds=sidebyside

updated README file

- added information on Python dependencies
- wrapped lines in a previous paragraph (no changes)
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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@@ -9,5 +9,11 @@ submodule like::
   git submodule update
 
 
-Wikimedia dumps are usually in a compressed format such as 7z (most common), gz, or bz2. Wikiq uses your computer's compression software to read these files. Therefore wikiq depends on
-`7za`, `gzcat`, and `zcat`. 
+Wikimedia dumps are usually in a compressed format such as 7z (most common),
+gz, or bz2. Wikiq uses your computer's compression software to read these
+files. Therefore wikiq depends on `7za`, `gzcat`, and `zcat`. 
+
+There are also a series of Python dependencies. You can install these using pip
+with a command like:
+
+  pip3 install mwbase mwreverts mwxml mwtypes mwcli mwdiffs mwpersistence