[Mediawiki-l] programmatic page edits

[Rowan Collins]

On 07/11/05, Norman Kabir <nkabir at rocketknowledge.com> wrote:
> I've tried to find information on creating and updating pages using
> command line scripts but, so far, have found little information.
>
> I'd like to take a set of text files and push them to my wiki using a
> shell script. Is there a documented way to do this? I wanted to avoid
> directly updating the underlying database if possible.

Well, there's the Python bot framework, if that doesn't seem too much
like overkill:
http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/

Other than that, there's the various dump import related scripts which
you should have lying around, but that's a case of experiment and see
where you get...

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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]