- ! /usr/bin/python
- Very very simple pywikipedia script for uploading taxonomy stubs
import wikipedia import sys import os import time
- die if no files provided
if len(sys.argv) < 2: print "Please give at least one file to upload." sys.exit(1)
- pywikipedia setup
- we're on the english wikipedia
en = wikipedia.getSite()
- get rid of first element
filelist = sys.argv filelist.pop(0)
- upload one file at a time, 30s apart
for taxofile in filelist:
if os.path.exists(taxofile) == 0: print "%s does not exist." % (taxofile) continue
container = open(taxofile,'r') articlecontent = container.read() container.close()
if len(articlecontent) == 0:
print "Sorry, empty file."
continue
else:
# assume for now that page title = "User:Opabinia_robotus/filename"
articletitle = "User:Opabinia_robotus/" + taxofile
articlepage = wikipedia.Page(en,articletitle)
# check for current content # if the page exists, don't upload if articlepage.exists(): print "This page already exists." continue
# create edit summary editsummary = "Creating page " + articletitle
# upload print articletitle articlepage.put(articlecontent,editsummary)
# wait 30s before next upload time.sleep(30)