Thread:Project:Support desk/Loading pages from .csv with categories & properties.

There seems to be something that I'm not getting.

I'm wanting to upload pages, a line at a time, from .csv files into mediawiki. I've loaded the semantic extensions. I'm able to load the .csv file into a template, but it seems to ignore the properties, the categories and even text features like '\n' - simply treating it all as raw text. How do I change this behaviour?

The files I've used for testing are:

.csv: Title,Import_template[namespace],Import_template[category],Import_template[policy_owner],Import_template[policy_name],Import_template[policy_description]

"sandpit:one","policy","[category:policy]\nstatus::active\nrenewal date::20/02/2014\nservice::Administration\nspeciality::all","My.Name","test_policy_name","==Policy Description==\n\ntest_policy_description\n\nmore test policy description"

What I get is:

title | namespace | policy category | policy_owner | My.Name policy_name | test_policy_name policy_description| =Policy Description==\n\ntest_policy_description\n\nmore test policy description test_policy |

So it seems to be interpreting the input as if it was binary text, ignoring the categories, the [] and the '\n'. So, as you can see, I've tried to set properties and categories, but doesn't seem to recognise them.

The template I've set is:

This is the "Import_template" template. It should be called in the following format: &lt;pre&gt;

&lt;/pre&gt; Edit the page to see the template text.

Fustbariclation (talk)

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