[MediaWiki utilities](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)/mediawiki-utilities) is a collection of simple, sharp tools for extracting and processing MediaWiki data. These libraries are inspired by the Unix philosophy. Each library is designed to *do one thing and do it well*. The libraries are designed to *work together*. Where applicable, they also include unix-style command line utilities that *handle text streams, because that is a universal interface*.
In this session, I'll introduce participants to what utilities are already available. Specifically, I'll demo the extremely easy to use and high power XML parser use of Wikimedia's massive XML dumps. Then we'll use the utilities to get some hacking done.
I hope to use this session to gather collaborators and to prioritize new work.