[Mediawiki-l] Importing only new articles

[Patrick Flaherty]

Hi all,
I'm looking for a way to import about 10,000 articles into a wiki. The only
catch is about 1000 of these articles have already been created. Ideally i
would like to import only the articles that don't exist and not have any
article get overwritten by the import. Is there a good extension/tool to
prevent an import from overwriting pages that already exist? I have a
feeling that the answer is no and I will have to write a code that would
query the api and disregard found articles. Has anyone done this before?

Thanks so much,
Patrick