Bulk upload files into a MediaWiki wiki using the MediaWiki API.

Uses go-mediawiki by sadbox.

Prerequisites:

• Git
• Golang

If you haven't already, install Git and Golang on your system. On Ubuntu/Debian this would be:

sudo apt-get install git golang

Then set up Go:

• Create a directory for your $GOPATH, for example ~/gocode
• Set the $GOPATH environment variable accordingly: export GOPATH=~/gocode
• Add the bin directory to your $PATH, for example: export PATH=$PATH:~/gocode/bin

Now you can install wikipush using go get:

go get github.com/thomasheller/wikipush

Run wikipush in a directory with a lot of *.txt files. wikipush will tell you how many files there are.

If everything appears to be correct, start the bulk upload by running wikipush -run -url http://.../api.php.

wikipush will ask you for your MediaWiki username and password and then begin uploading the files.

Rules:

1. If a page doesn't exist, it will be created and the input file will be moved to the done sub-directory.
2. If a page already exists, with different content, wikipush will do nothing and move the input file to the dupes sub-directory.
3. If a page already exists, with the same content, wikipush will do nothing and move the input file to the skipped sub-directory.

If wikipush completed succesfully, it will print a few statistics about how many files landed in which folder and how many errors occured during processing.

If your input files have a filename extension different from .txt, you can tell wikipush to recognize a different extension using the -ext flag, for example -ext .foo (include the dot, unless there really is none).

wikipush will wait half a second between each upload attempt. If you'd like to increase/decrease the duration, use the -pause flag. You can specify values like -pause 0, -pause 100ms, -pause 2s, -pause 5m etc.

Uploads will show up as Bulk upload by wikipush in the page revision log. You can change this message to something else using the -summary flag, for instance -summary "I love MediaWiki!".