[seqfan] Re: Q from NJAS: how do I upload to wiki?

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Sun Nov 28 23:54:51 CET 2010


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:29:23PM -0500, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> Can someone who is familiar with the wiki help me?
> 
> Q1: I want to upload a new (large) file to the OEIS wiki from
> my home computer. The file is called say "Deleted_Sequence_2".
> I want it to become a file on the wiki with that name.
> What do I do?
> 
> [I tried uploading a file testAAAA, but it refused because there was no suffix.
> Other things I tried also failed.]
> 
> Q2: There is an existing wiki file called
> Works_Citing_the_On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Integer_Sequences
> I want to replace a large part of that with a new file that I upload
> from my home computer. It is many thousands of lines,
> too big to mouse. Again, how do I do this?
> 
> Neil
> 
>
On second thought, you can upload a page to 
http://oeis.org/w/index.php?someparameters
with curl(1) using the HTTP POST method.

The only difficulty is keeping track of authentication.

Fetching a page can trivially be done with wget(1) e.g.




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