Free Software Directory:Participate/MediaWiki

maintenance/edit.php

To be able to create new pages with the maintenance/edit.php you need to do the following:

• The "Maintenance script" doesn't exist by default. You can generate it by running something like:

echo "Hello" > test.wiki && php /var/www/w/maintenance/edit.php "A dummy editing just to generate the user account: Maintenance script" Sandbox < test.wiki

• Add "administrator" group right to the "Maintenance script" user: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special:UserRights/Maintenance_script

• Evaluate the average time in seconds it will take to create or edit entries:

constant_identifier="Hello";
SECONDS=0
# .wiki files with identical content since the last revision will be ignored by edit.php ("Your edit was ignored because no change was made to the text.") so add the current time in milliseconds to make them unique.

for (( i=0; i<10; i++ )); do
  echo "$constant_identifier $RANDOM" > Test.wiki; php /var/www/w/maintenance/edit.php -s "Some summary" Test$i < Test.wiki
done

rm -f Test.wiki
duration=$SECONDS
echo "$(($duration / 10)) seconds per entry in average."
rm -f Test.wiki