[Chicago-talk] automated creation of media wiki pages

[Paul Mantz]

My company does something like this for formatting man pages for web
(see http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.8.html) off of a subversion
hook.  I can ask our build manager how exactly he does this.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Elizabeth Cortell <zrusilla at mac.com> wrote:
> 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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