Re: [Semediawiki-user] [SF] APIs and bulk-operations

[Yaron K. <ya...@gm...>]

Hi Ian,

Actually, I'd recommend to do uploading via the Data Transfer extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Data_Transfer

As for other bulk operations, the Replace Text extension might be useful:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

...beyond that, I think MediaWiki bots are the way to go; but I'm not an
expert in them.

-Yaron


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ian Stokes-Rees <
ijs...@al...> wrote:

> I have 100,000 museum objects in a data base.  I have come up with a
> basic data structure to represent these in SMW, and have created
> appropriate Forms.  There are now two actions I need to carry out:
>
> 1. Automated upload of these objects to my SMW instance -- I assume I
> can do this by judicious use of
> "http://.../Special:FormEdit/Item/SomeItemName" to construct HTTP POST
> operations programmatically that will create these objects.  If that
> isn't going to work, or if there is a better way to get data in, please
> let me know.
>
> 2. Even once this is done, I am still going to need to do bulk
> operations on pages.  What tools/techniques exist to assist me with this
> in the [S]MW world?  Examples are: adding key words, attaching location
> information, grouping 100+ pages together.
>
> TIA.
>
> Ian
>
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