[Chicago-talk] automated creation of media wiki pages
Elizabeth Cortell
zrusilla at mac.com
Thu Sep 24 12:17:29 PDT 2009
You're in luck. MediaWiki has an external API. You interact with it
with values on the query string, and can receive output back in a number
of handy formats.
Here's some light bedside reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
Hope that's a start.
Liz
Michael Potter wrote:
> Mongers,
>
> I have been called upon to create about 500 new media wiki pages on a
> company intranet.
>
> The information is tabled information; I know how to create media wiki
> markup for what I want.
>
> My question is: how can I automate the creation of the pages and the
> populating of the pages with my content?
>
> We chose media wiki because it is already setup.
>
>
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