I have a similar situation and used "extensions" to generate articles from
records (lists) in a table. The new articles aren't exactly the same as if
you had created them by hand (they don't show up in Recent changes, for
example, but in my case, I don't want them to), but could probably be with
some more work. This requires some php programming to create the
extensions, which are php functions that you write that can be "hooked" to
MW through tags that are placed in the articles to call the functions. So
if you can get the terms into list, they can be put into a table, and then
have php code create the articles. I can send you my functions as examples
(not pretty, but they get the job done).
At 11:00 PM 3/24/05, you wrote:
I'm working with a group to set up a new MediaWiki
based wiki using either
v1.3.11 or v1.4.0 and there are currently a number of resources either
scattered around the web or on our existing web site that we'd like to add
to the wiki.
Some of these resources are glossary type content with, for example,
definitions of non-English words and phrases, jargon, and archaic terms.
The way we would like to add them is to create a separate entry (article)
for each term/phrase, using information embedded in the current HTML
documents to organize them by categories in the wiki. This will allow
people to go directly to the word or phrase by entering it in the search
box or to browse them through the different categories.
However, the number of articles that would need to be created for this is
fairly large and there's always the possibility of human error messing up
some of the entries if we do it manually. I was hoping that we could
automatically load these as entries, either directly into the MySQL
database or by programmatically feeding the web interface.
Obviously, we would need to parse the current HTML files and probably
convert the entries into wiki text but, assuming that won't be a problem
to accomplish, are there any utilities available that would allow us to
automate the process of importing this information?
John Blumel
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