[Mediawiki-l] How to load a text file and render it as if it were stored in the database

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 22:56:53 UTC 2011


colivier.ext en orange-ftgroup.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Many pages in our mediawiki instance are generated by a shell script.
> 
> The generated text contains standard mediawiki syntax and dot graphs between <graphviz> </graphviz> tags.
> 
> Up to now we've been copying/pasting the generated text files into the mediawiki editor, but we are now looking for a way tell mediawiki to render those files as if they were stored as a regular page, calling other extensions as needed.
> 
> The include extensions we've tried so far cannot cope with graphviz tags; they simply include them as wikitext without calling others extension parsers.
> 
> Is there a way to simply tell mediawiki to load a text file and render it as if it were stored in the database
> 
> Regards,
> Cédric OLIVIER

What about making the script *actually storing it* in the database?
(ie. maintenance/importTextFile.php )




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