[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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