[Mediawiki-l] server creation of new wiki pages without using a browser pages.

[Jim Hu]

I'd import the items using importDump in the maintenance scripts.   
This requires writing a script to embed your items in the mediawiki  
xml, but that's not too hard.
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054


On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:24 AM, <revansx at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> I'm new to the forum and I'm looking to write a PHP script that  
> generates (from the same server as is running the mediawiki) a new,  
> orphaned, wiki page and also creates the initial page content as an  
> automated server action.
>
> I have another database for a company application which contains a  
> large table of items (+10k items) for which I wish to generate wiki  
> entries for.
>
> So here's my question: --- What are the steps to manually crate a  
> new wiki page in the mediawiki MySQL database without using the  
> mediawiki web-pages? For example, if I were going to make a page  
> and add content to it exclusively from a tool like "phpMyAdmin".
>
> I'm not looking (specifically) for the php code to do this. I just  
> need to know what the sequence of events is (like an algorithm) and  
> what pitfalls to look out for.
>
> I don't want to make the wiki unstable. My goal is that when the  
> PHP script I intend to write is done, the MySQLWiki database  
> wouldn't know that it wasn't added by a typical user using the  
> wiki's broswer interface.
>
> Thanks (in advance),
>
> -revansx
>
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