I know of two options:

1. (suggested by Brion Vibber) use the ImportDump maintenance program:

php maintenance/importDump.php big-old-file.xml

-or-

for x in *.xml do php maintenance/importDump.php $x done

2. Use the Pywikipediabot Framework:

a. Install the pywikipediabot and configure it for your site.

b. Manipulate the data for your pages into one large file, preferrably named dict.txt with {{start}} tags at the top of each page, {{stop}} tags at the bottom, and the '''pagename''' as the first bolded item on each page (optionally enclosed in an HTML-style <!-- comment -->

c. Run the login.py script to log in.

d. Run the pagefromfile.py script. This will parse through the dict.txt file quickly creating each page in the file on your wiki.

This should be a fairly quick process... complete in under an hour or two. The pagefromfile.py script can occasionally bomb out. If that happens, look at your wiki recentchanges log, note the last file uploaded, remove the data in dict.txt from the top of the file to that page, and restart.

Good luck!

Tim

-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liz Kim Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:19 PM To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] directly write to database

Hello, I have over 200 .html files that need to be turned into wiki. These are all very simple text html files with maybe <b> tags and <p>.. very simple. Instead of copying and pasting all these files one by one, is there a way to access the database to write to it directly? Is there a way to easily understand the db strucutre? I am thinking there could be a script that can read the html code and i can easily parse out what I want to put into teh edit window of wiki.. Thank you, Liz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l