Comments on: Automated Media Wiki Page Creation

Question: Automated Media Wiki Page Creation

coolin86 — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:32:47 -0800

How can I automate importing thousands of CSV files (or 1 large CSV file) into a MediaWiki installation?

As part of my summer internship I was charged with moving thousands of knowledge base articles into our MediaWiki installation. The files will be exported from an old ERP system as either 1 large CSV file containing all files or 1 CSV for each article. I can perform some manipulation on them but the less the better. All of the articles are simply plain text, but some do contain links to files located on a Windows share. Ideally, I am looking for some sort of plugin but any information would be helpful.

Right now I am planning to manipulate the files into XML (through Perl or Python) and upload them to MediaWiki using their "Special:Import page". However, even with this process, I would need a way to automate the "Browse/Upload" procedure, and I have never done anything like that. So help with that would be appreciated as well.

If this is not clear or more information is needed, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

By: rc55

rc55 — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:36:55 -0800

Well, I'd be half inclined to just get someone to do it for you if you can - the expertise required might be beyond your scope of ability, and for the uninitiated I could understand it to be quite a daunting task.

You'd very likely have to write your own importing script to push the data from a uploaded CSV folder right into the database.

By: frieze

frieze — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:52:36 -0800

There's a cpan module that lets you update mediawiki pages. I used it for doing the same thing. I can send you my code if you need something to start from.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:59:01 -0800

I think you can use import dump.