Re: [Mediawiki-l] server creation of new wiki pages without using abrowser pages.

At some point I'm going to clean up some code I've written to make these imports easier... Here's what I did (caveat - it _seems_ to work for me, but I don't know if I've introduced creeping crud into my wiki): I used Special:Export to generate a sample XML file. I just lifted the xml headers and basic wiki info (<siteinfo>) from that. Each article is then generated by replacing the information between <article></article> tags. For a bunch of gene pages that I generate, I have this function: function gene_page_xml($gene_page_title,$gene_page_content){ global $gene_count; $time_stamp = date("Y-m-d").'T'.date("h:i:s")."Z"; $gene_page = "<page>\n<title>$gene_page_title</title>\n<id>0</id> \n<revision> <id>$gene_count</id> <timestamp>$time_stamp</timestamp> <contributor> <username>Wikientrybot</username> <id>2</id> </contributor> <comment>Automated import of articles</comment> <text xml:space=\"preserve\">"; $gene_page.=$gene_page_content."</text>\n</revision>\n</page>\n"; return $gene_page; } I've found that the revision id is irrelevant for importing, but the time_stamp has to be after the last revision of an existing page, if you're overwriting one that's already there (not an issue for the initial import, but if you're like me you'll import them and realize you want to make changes in the layout and reimport them). Note that the time is in zulu. I've also done this by making a string for an article xml item template, and then doing str_replace to fill in the variable fields. I write the xml_header, the gene pages, and the close tag out to a file, and then call importDump.php. Hope this helps...and I hope the real experts can correct me if I've misrepresented anything about the xml spec. Best, Jim On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:32 AM, &lt;revansx(a)cox.net&gt; &lt;revansx(a)cox.net&gt; wrote: ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054