--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8
+
+"""
+This scripts reads the table of footnote qualifiers from Redmine
+and produces contents of fn_qualifiers.py – a list of valid qualifiers.
+"""
+
+from lxml import etree
+from urllib2 import urlopen
+
+url = 'http://redmine.nowoczesnapolska.org.pl/projects/wl-publikacje/wiki/Lista_skr%C3%B3t%C3%B3w'
+
+parser = etree.HTMLParser()
+tree = etree.parse(urlopen(url), parser)
+
+print """\
+# -*- coding: utf-8
+\"""
+List of standard footnote qualifiers.
+This file is generated by scripts/fn_qualifiers_list_from_wiki.py,
+do not edit it.
+\"""
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+
+FN_QUALIFIERS = {""".encode('utf-8')
+
+for td in tree.findall('//td'):
+ print (" '%s': '%s'," % (
+ td[0].text.replace('\\', '\\\\').replace("'", "\\'"),
+ td[0].tail.strip(' -').replace('\\', '\\\\').replace("'", "\\'")
+ )).encode('utf-8')
+
+print """ }""".encode('utf-8')