On 07/11/05, Norman Kabir nkabir@rocketknowledge.com wrote:
I've tried to find information on creating and updating pages using command line scripts but, so far, have found little information.
I'd like to take a set of text files and push them to my wiki using a shell script. Is there a documented way to do this? I wanted to avoid directly updating the underlying database if possible.
Well, there's the Python bot framework, if that doesn't seem too much like overkill: http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/
Other than that, there's the various dump import related scripts which you should have lying around, but that's a case of experiment and see where you get...
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]