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

[Jim Hu]

At some point I'm going to clean up some code I've written to make  
these imports easier...

Here's what I did (caveat - it _seems_ to work for me, but I don't  
know if I've introduced creeping crud into my wiki):

I used Special:Export to generate a sample XML file.  I just lifted  
the xml headers and basic wiki info (<siteinfo>) from that.  Each  
article is then generated by replacing the information between  
<article></article> tags.  For a bunch of gene pages that I generate,  
I have this function:

function gene_page_xml($gene_page_title,$gene_page_content){
	global $gene_count;
	$time_stamp = date("Y-m-d").'T'.date("h:i:s")."Z";
	$gene_page = "<page>\n<title>$gene_page_title</title>\n<id>0</id> 
\n<revision>
	<id>$gene_count</id>
	<timestamp>$time_stamp</timestamp>
	<contributor>
		<username>Wikientrybot</username>
		<id>2</id>
	</contributor>
	<comment>Automated import of articles</comment>
	<text xml:space=\"preserve\">";
	$gene_page.=$gene_page_content."</text>\n</revision>\n</page>\n";
	return $gene_page;
}

I've found that the revision id is irrelevant for importing, but the  
time_stamp has to be after the last revision of an existing page, if  
you're overwriting one that's already there (not an issue for the  
initial import, but if you're like me you'll import them and realize  
you want to make changes in the layout and reimport them).  Note that  
the time is in zulu.

I've also done this by making a string for an article xml item  
template, and then doing str_replace to fill in the variable fields.

I write the xml_header, the gene pages, and the close tag out to a  
file, and then call importDump.php.

Hope this helps...and I hope the real experts can correct me if I've  
misrepresented anything about the xml spec.

Best,

Jim


On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:32 AM, <revansx at cox.net> <revansx at cox.net> wrote:

> Hmm..., I found the "importDump.php" (thanks Jim) in the  
> maintinence folder, but "importTextFile.php" is nowhere to be seen  
> (thanks Rob). I'm working with mediawiki version-1.6.10. could that  
> be the problem? In the mean time, could somone point me to a  
> document that describes the "Article Class" and an example of a  
> basic XML or text file that would be imported so I will know what  
> to format my file like.  Sorry to be a high maintinence noob ;-)  
> I'm sure I'll have more question before this is over. Thanks.......
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Take a look at maintenance/importTextFile.php.
>> Rob Church
>>
>
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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