Forum:Possibilities for automated uploading in Wikia?

I'm just beginning this morning to set up the Proteins wiki, and would appreciate your advice. One of our goals is to annotate proteins on a genomic scale, which will involve setting up typically ~30,000 pages per genome. I can write computer programs to generate the necessary Wikipedia-formatted pages from our data, but I and my students would rather not have to upload them manually, one by one; even at 1 page/minute, that would entail 21 solid days of work/genome. Is there some way to upload the pages in bulk, or in an automated way, so that no human labor is involved? Our goal is to set up pages not just for one genome, but for dozens by the end of 2007. Your suggestions would be much appreciated. Proteins 16:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * MVS works to update pages, and it should work to create them too. For me, working from home with a cable connection, it uploaded about 9 pages a minute. Your mileage may vary, but be assured there are ways to automate your task. Hope that helps! --StBacchus 20:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * If you're up to the programming task in python. Then the Pywikipedia bot framework works well. Just be sure to have the staff add a bot flag to a useraccount you want as a bot so that it dosen't encounter any limitations to it's task. Dantman (Talk) 22:30, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

One of my students has volunteered to tackle the Python programming; we'll see how it works out. I may take the opportunity of learning Python as well. Thank you, everyone, for your advice! Proteins 20:52, 9 February 2007 (UTC)