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A bot that can read xml

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Cristal01 (talkcontribs)

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a already created bot that could create about 300k pages for me by putting specific data from an xml file into a template I would create preferable with if function. If there isn't any ideas what would be the easiest way to do something like this? Any dummy-proof guides how to create page-creating scripts?

Thanks in advance.

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

It almost sounds like you're setting up an SEO honey pot, but I could see cases where you have a large stash of documents that you want to publish, so I'll offer you this:

After setting up MediaWiki, check out a bot-building toolkit like Pywikibot. A friend of mine built a tool that he used to publish a bunch of academic paper abstracts to a wiki using a spreadsheet as the source.

So, yes, what you want is possible. I'm not sure what you mean by "dummy-proof", though. Perhaps looking at the documentation for Pywikibot will give you the information you need.

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