I am privately hosting a public wiki (Media Wiki 1.27.0). The data sits in a local MySQL database. I want to populate the wiki pages with this data. I am unable to find any documentation to solve this. Please sen links or info. Best Regards, Khaled Soubani.
The nature of the data you wish to import is unclear, as is the desired presentation.
Is this data an existing MediaWiki site? If so, I would try upgrading the existing MediaWiki, and it should convert the data, which you can then import into the new wiki using standard SQL techniques.
If you want to present other MySQL data alien to MediaWiki, I have an extension that may be useful to you that allows tabular display from standard SQL statements, maintained from within MediaWiki. It has some nice enhancements, like pagination and being able to keep a running total, eliding long texts, and basic (non-resizing) image display. Here is an example:
http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Dairy_production/15
Let me know if you want the extension and I will email it to you. I’d post it in the MediaWiki extensions library, but I’m always working on it… :-)
Jan Steinman EcoReality Co-op, http://www.EcoReality.org 2152 Fulford-Ganges Road Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1Z7 CANADA +1 250.653.2024
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