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

[revansx at cox.net]

Hi Jim,

I know I'm gettin' close on this just a few more questions:

Like you said:
I used the Special:Export page at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Export
and requested some random page name.
..and presto....XML code..cool!

However, I got a lot of "<Namespace key=>" tags.
What are they?

Otherwise, I think I'm ready to do this :-)

And here is another problem along the same lines.
Assuming I have a "golden" XML version of a wiki page,
is there a maintinence script which will update an existing wiki page based on an externally provided XML file.

continued thanks,
- rich





---- Jim Hu <jimhu at tamu.edu> wrote: 
> 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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