What is the process for automatically creating articles in Mediawiki using PHP?

To automatically create articles in Mediawiki using PHP, you can use the MediaWiki API to send a POST request with the necessary parameters such as title, content, and token. This allows you to programmatically add new articles to your wiki. 

<?php

// Set up the API URL and parameters
$apiUrl = 'https://your-wiki-url.com/api.php';
$params = [
    'action' => 'edit',
    'title' => 'New Article Title',
    'text' => 'This is the content of the new article',
    'token' => 'your_edit_token',
];

// Send a POST request to the API
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Output the API response
echo $response;

?>

Keywords

Mediawiki PHP article creation automation scripting

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