There are lots of different libraries for writing scripts that interact with mediawiki, checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CREATEBOT#Programming_languages_and_librariesfor a list.
It would be fairly easy to write a script to create pages from a database/xml/text files etc -- Chris On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to this list (and have not yet found a way to search the > archives), so maybe this topic has been discussed to death before. If so, > I'd appreciate a hint (when, subject, etc. so I can download the proper > month from the archives) and ask to accept my apologies.. > > I'm working on a project where there are a lot of (generated) pages on one > side and a mediawiki 1.5.1 on the other side. The administrator of the > wiki is a bit overly careful, so I cannot use the import functionality > (which works without a problem on my test-wiki at home). Nonetheless, I've > about 2500 wiki pages to upload... "Open page - copy from editor - paste > into firefox - save - open next page - etc.pp." was hard enough for the > test pages until everything worked like a charm, but by now all the > converting and generating is just a "make all" and a few minutes of > runtime - and uploading would be weeks... > > Is there a (linux command line) tool out there which accepts a filename > with wiki content, a wiki address and page name, a username and password > (or cookie file path) and uploads the file's contents to the wiki? > Alternatively, is it possible to achieve this somehow with wget? > Programming & shell skills are available. > > I found a bunch of media uploaders, but this is just about uploading > normal pages, not about uploading media - there are some pictures in the > project, but they can be handled manually, as they are few. > > Yours, > Christian Treczoks > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
