Openresearch:HowTo

Bulk Page Creation

For conference series (and probably other similar types of content), its important to add data to OpenResearch in bulk. Here is how this can be done easily:

• Create a spreadsheet with the important information, similar to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19n943XNzDDuCaBpZ4x1l1P4gJVQ8my2424o4UOc3v9k/edit
• Export the spreadsheet to a CSV
• You can use a service such as http://mwcsvimport.pronique.com to create an XML import file for MediaWiki from the CSV using the following template:

The Title should be "{$Acronym}" and each of the variables should aligned with variables in the xml file.

{{Event
|Acronym={$Acronym}
|Title={$Title}
|Series=ESWC
|Type=Conference
|Field=Semantic web
|Start date={$Start}
|End date={$End}
|City={$City}
|State={$State}
|Country={$Country}
|Homepage={$Homepage}
|Submitted papers={$Submissions}
|Accepted papers={$Accepted}
|has general chair={$Chair},
|has program chair={$PC chair}
}}

• Use MediWiki Import pages to upload the generated XML import file and create the pages in bulk
• The import page accepts XML files formated in the Media Wiki export format (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Export, https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd)