User:WikiMaster/Projects

Outreach

Goals

• One hundred daily contributors by end of September, 2011 (PortlandWiki's second birthday).
• Easier user interface; make PortlandWiki readily accessible to non-geek contributors.

Admin

Spent day researching how to upload pre written articles en masse.

MediaWiki Manuals

• Manual:FAQ - Wiki Importing

Importing from other types of files

The Edit.php, importImages.php and ImportTextFile.php maintenance scripts can be used to import text and images into MediaWiki.

• Manual:Importing XML dumps
• Category:Editor handbook

Looked at

• Inserting articles straight into MediaWiki database

Must Read: Wikipedia:Creating a bot

MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator | MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator

(Depends on Snoopy; already trying to get DreamHost to help with server config.)

(Finally got Snoopy installed but MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator's scant documentation is hard to follow. Now looking at tools listed under Also, And....)

Also

• MediaWiki API:Main page
• Article Class Reference

Article::doEdit()

• get wiki data from UseModWiki
• Automatic mediawiki page import powershell script

And

• Extension:External Data

(Extension:External Data is part of the Semantic Bundle already installed on PortlandWiki.)

• Extension:MassEditRegex
• Manual:Importing external content

Manual:Importing external content - Converting content from a CSV text file

csv and xls converter to wiki

Other mediawiki extensions

• Template:Extension
• Extension:AddPageService

Will need to config SOAP.

• Extension:Data Transfer

Interesting stuff

• jonasjohn.de Projects:

Remove Empty Directories — RED is a little utility that allows you to remove empty folders recursively.

tester.jonasjohn.de — A website test tool.

snippet library — A code snippets collection.

htmlSQL — A PHP class which allows you to access HTML values by an SQL like syntax.

Other Admin To Do

• Complete what's left undone of these tasks.

Links

• Portland's Wikipedia meetup page.
• Interwiki Links: Special:Interwiki
• Magic Words: wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Invite

Interwiki Invite (via Interwiki magicword)?

[Interwiki transcluding is disabled] (nope)

[[wikipedia:[Interwiki transcluding is disabled]]] (nope)

[[[Interwiki transcluding is disabled]]] (nope)

{{wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Invite}} (nope)

[Interwiki transcluding is disabled] (nope)

[Interwiki transcluding is disabled] (nope)

{{Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Invite}} (nope)

• Infoboxes: Template:Infobox, Infobox