Hoi, There is a bot that will try to import the data into wiktionary. It is part of the pywikipedia bot.Under optimal conditions it works fine, if you run a Window variety, it must be Windows XP as this has the best handling of "funny" characters. The bot tries to cater for UTF-8 but it does not work perfectly. Andre Engels, the writer of the bot cannot find where the current problems are so we are rather desperate for a fix :(.
To get it to work, your file must contain a start and stop string for each article. The data will be imported as is into wiktionary. The bot will only import if there is nothing there, so it must be completely new. To be "nice" to the other users, it is best to run this with a profile with bot status. :)
I am happy to produce a file that is ready for upload for you from what you have. The uploading of the file I would also do when the bot worked 100%. I do upload with different users in order to state from where the content originated (and comply with the GFDL in the process).
Thanks, GerardM
jellings wrote:
To clarify on my original post:
I have a text file of dictionary terms - word, definition plus another file of word, synonyms - since I already have it in this format it would be a lot easier to import it.
I CAN reformat the file, but to enter it manually would take too long (there are over 20,000 entries in the dictionary file alone, more in the synonyms).
I do not have a complete understanding of the database schema so the answer may be obvious to others; any insight would be helpful.
Rich Holton wrote:
Forwarded from Foundation-l:
--- jellings jellings@gmail.com wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:02:24 -0500 From: jellings jellings@gmail.com To: foundation-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] Import question
Hi
Sorry in advance if this is the wrong list to post this to.
I would like to know about importing csv files into an existing wiki.
I have tried to find the documentation for doing so but have not had much luck.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
-- john
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