You could also use the script pagefromfile.py from pywikipedia which has e.g. the following options for already existing articles:
-appendtop add the text to the top of it -appendbottom add the text to the bottom of it http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_the_python_wikipediabot Gu Quoting Rich Evans <[email protected]>: > that's a teriffic solution. thanks! > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:45:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] maintinence script to append a new section to a > page > > >>>>> "RE" == Rich Evans <[email protected]> writes: > > RE> Hey folks, I currently use the "importTextFile.php" maintinence > RE> script to automate the creation of new articles, but now I would > RE> like to use it to automate the addition of "new sections" added to > RE> the bottom of an existing article > > Perhaps use > $ GET ...title=myarticlename\&action=raw > file > $ cat newjunk >> file > And then run importTextFile on file. > > If there might be [[Category:...]] already at the bottom, instead make > a perl script to insert your addition just before it. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
