Hi Gaurav,
MediaWiki uses MySQL to store all its data, so yes, it can display from a MySQL database. You can have a custom table inside (or outside) your MediaWiki installed database and write extensions to show data from that table.
What we did was actually to import XML data from a reference manager as wiki pages so that there was one wiki page per reference.
If you write a MediaWiki extension (I'd suggest the Special Page format) to take your source data and format it however you want you can easily import data into MediaWiki from any source I can think of at the moment.
For example, you might have a special page that you just went to, or hit a button, or had a text box to give information about the source. The special page would load the source and as long as it had MediaWiki page names it could create articles for you.
$comment = "Auto-Imported"; $articleTitle = Title::newFromText($this->getSourceTitle()); If ( !$articleTitle->exists() ) { $articleText = $this->getSourceText(); $article = new Article($articleTitle); $article->doEdit( $articleText, $comment, EDIT_NEW); }
Slap most of that in a loop, make sure I got my syntax right and you have yourself an importer.
Will that work for you?
Good luck! -Courtney
PS I CC'd the list because this is a common question and it might be nice for you to get more feedback.
-----Original Message----- From: Gaurav Singal [mailto:gsingal@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:06 AM To: Christensen, Courtney Subject: autopopulate mediawiki
Hi Courtney,
I found your posts on http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/157577?page=last.
I am creating a mediawiki that I would like to autopopulate from a database. I noticed that you were able to do this -- how did you go about it? Alternatively, do you know if mediawiki can display information from a MySQL database?
Thank you for your help, Gaurav
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