Is there a way to, after finishing the setup of a wiki, globally mark all of the pages as RC Patrolled?

It's a nice feature but, since the number of articles that will be auto-submitted to our wiki is in the 3500-4000 range (or maybe more), it's not very practical to go and click on "Mark this article as patrolled" on each of them.

Obviously, I can automate this too but, since I need the rcid for the page just added, and the "easy" way to get this is to retrieve the page with the "mark" link, I have to hit the wiki two extra times -- 1 to get the "mark" URL with the rcid and 1 to mark it patrolled) for each page -- and maintain 2 user agents in my bot -- one that uses the user name I am submitting the articles under (to track the original source) and one that uses my sysop user name so that I can get the page and mark it (or keep logging in and out with both user names, which is even more hits on the wiki).

The reason the number of hits is an issue is that I'd like to pause between hits because there are other users working manually on the wiki and I don't want to interfere with their work by slowing things down too much. So two (or more) extra hits adds up to a lot of extra time to do the loading.

John Blumel