Talk:Import CSV data into a wiki

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Here lies the documentatation for csv2wiki.pl

Description

csv2wiki is a way to import data from a CSV file into a wiki running mediawiki. There are two versions of this program. The first is a command-line driven version written in the Perl language. The second is a PHP version that can be run from a web browser.

How It Works

Source File

Template

Logging In

Running from windows

If you are needing to run Csv2wiki from a Windows machine, you will first need to install | Active Perl. Refer to their site for documentation.

syntax

  • put all items in the same dir
  • update the job.txt with the full pathname of your CSV file, the wiki URL (must be long form including the index.php), and the wiki user/password.
  • The title parameter currently just specifies the column number (starting at 0) of the heading to use as the article title.
  • The name of the template to use can be specified using "template=blabla" and defaults to "Record" if not included.
  • when set up, run csv2wiki.pl job.txt
  • csv:
  • wiki:
  • user:
  • pass:
  • title: 7
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