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I am new to DokuWiki and have done the basic setup for a private wiki. I want to use it as an alternative to a spreadsheet I've been using to track my ratings and other notes for a category of pro...
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Monica Cellio
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2024-02-06T21:52:14Z (3 months ago)
- I am new to DokuWiki and have done the basic setup for a private wiki. I want to use it as an alternative to a spreadsheet I've been using to track my ratings and other notes for a category of products. (The spreadsheet hasn't been workable for me on my phone.) I am creating pages, one per specific product.[^1]
- This spreadsheet has hundreds of rows, and I'd like to script the creation of all those pages. DokuWiki page source is just text files, so I tried creating a page manually in the `data/pages/` directory, but it didn't show up. Presumably I need to also edit some metadata, but this is where I'm having trouble finding my way around.
- I found the [CSV plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:csv) but it creates one big table -- not what I want. I also found the [Struct plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:struct), but it seems more complicated and more rigid than I want -- yes I have a spreadsheet now, which is inherently structured, but as I add to this wiki I want to be free to adjust individual pages. For example, sometimes I have more than one rating, recorded on different dates, and I want those to be grouped on one page. In some cases I'll want to add external links. So I'm looking for an initial structured *import*, but I want the resulting pages to be plain old wiki text, freely editable. Ideally, I would like to find the simplest approach that works for this one-time data-import problem; the closer to bare-bones DokuWiki I stay, the better.
- [^1]: It's my beer ratings, so it's important to be able to easily look up "have I had this before? what did I think of it?" from a restaurant. I'd been using sites like RateBeer and BeerAdvocate, but I need more flexibility in my note-taking so I'd rather keep my own data than depend on a third-party service.
- I am new to DokuWiki and have done the basic setup for a private wiki. I want to use it as an alternative to a spreadsheet I've been using to track my ratings and other notes for a category of products. (The spreadsheet hasn't been workable for me on my phone.) I am creating pages, one per specific product.[^1]
- This spreadsheet has hundreds of rows, and I'd like to script the creation of all those pages. DokuWiki page source is just text files, so I tried creating a page manually in the `data/pages/` directory, but it didn't show up. Presumably I need to also edit some metadata, but this is where I'm having trouble finding my way around.
- I found the [CSV plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:csv) but it creates one big table -- not what I want. I also found the [Struct plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:struct), but it seems more complicated and more rigid than I want -- yes I have a spreadsheet now, which is inherently structured, but as I add to this wiki I want to be free to adjust individual pages. For example, sometimes I have more than one rating, recorded on different dates, and I want those to be grouped on one page. In some cases I'll want to add external links. So I'm looking for an initial structured *import*, but I want the resulting pages to be plain old wiki text, freely editable. Ideally, I would like to find the simplest approach that works for this one-time data-import problem; the closer to bare-bones DokuWiki I stay, the better.
- I'm only asking about the DokuWiki side of this, not how to write a script to pull values out of the spreadsheet. Assume I already have blocks of Markdown suitable as source for wiki pages; I'm trying to add them. (Added this paragraph in response to a comment.)
- [^1]: It's my beer ratings, so it's important to be able to easily look up "have I had this before? what did I think of it?" from a restaurant. I'd been using sites like RateBeer and BeerAdvocate, but I need more flexibility in my note-taking so I'd rather keep my own data than depend on a third-party service.
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Monica Cellio
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2024-02-04T20:06:19Z (3 months ago)
How can I do a one-time data import to DokuWiki to create many pages?
I am new to DokuWiki and have done the basic setup for a private wiki. I want to use it as an alternative to a spreadsheet I've been using to track my ratings and other notes for a category of products. (The spreadsheet hasn't been workable for me on my phone.) I am creating pages, one per specific product.[^1] This spreadsheet has hundreds of rows, and I'd like to script the creation of all those pages. DokuWiki page source is just text files, so I tried creating a page manually in the `data/pages/` directory, but it didn't show up. Presumably I need to also edit some metadata, but this is where I'm having trouble finding my way around. I found the [CSV plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:csv) but it creates one big table -- not what I want. I also found the [Struct plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:struct), but it seems more complicated and more rigid than I want -- yes I have a spreadsheet now, which is inherently structured, but as I add to this wiki I want to be free to adjust individual pages. For example, sometimes I have more than one rating, recorded on different dates, and I want those to be grouped on one page. In some cases I'll want to add external links. So I'm looking for an initial structured *import*, but I want the resulting pages to be plain old wiki text, freely editable. Ideally, I would like to find the simplest approach that works for this one-time data-import problem; the closer to bare-bones DokuWiki I stay, the better. [^1]: It's my beer ratings, so it's important to be able to easily look up "have I had this before? what did I think of it?" from a restaurant. I'd been using sites like RateBeer and BeerAdvocate, but I need more flexibility in my note-taking so I'd rather keep my own data than depend on a third-party service.