Hi Gaurav,
MediaWiki uses MySQL to store all its data, so yes, it can display from a MySQL
database. You can have a custom table inside (or outside) your MediaWiki
installed database and write extensions to show data from that table.
What we did was actually to import XML data from a reference manager as wiki
pages so that there was one wiki page per reference.
If you write a MediaWiki extension (I'd suggest the Special Page format) to
take your source data and format it however you want you can easily import data
into MediaWiki from any source I can think of at the moment.
For example, you might have a special page that you just went to, or hit a
button, or had a text box to give information about the source. The special
page would load the source and as long as it had MediaWiki page names it could
create articles for you.
$comment = "Auto-Imported";
$articleTitle = Title::newFromText($this->getSourceTitle());
If ( !$articleTitle->exists() ) {
$articleText = $this->getSourceText();
$article = new Article($articleTitle);
$article->doEdit( $articleText, $comment, EDIT_NEW);
}
Slap most of that in a loop, make sure I got my syntax right and you have
yourself an importer.
Will that work for you?
Good luck!
-Courtney
PS I CC'd the list because this is a common question and it might be nice for
you to get more feedback.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gaurav Singal [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:06 AM
To: Christensen, Courtney
Subject: autopopulate mediawiki
Hi Courtney,
I found your posts on
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/157577?page=last.
I am creating a mediawiki that I would like to autopopulate from a database. I
noticed that you were able to do this -- how did you go about it?
Alternatively, do you know if mediawiki can display information from a MySQL
database?
Thank you for your help,
Gaurav
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