Gospel Translations:Technology/Multi-wiki project

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Description

Goal: to have a separate wiki for every language we support, with fully automated content loading and updating

Requirements:

• Code base written in PHP
• For each language X, copy over every X article from this English wiki to a target wiki, http://X.gospeltranslations.org

Technical process

This is one process that could be used to accomplish the multi-wiki setup and updates. There are some underlying techniques not spelled out here, so feel free to ask questions if something isn't connecting for you.

1. [working] Cronjob imports up-to-date info DabbleDB database and stores it in local PHP array (see structure)
2. [unassigned] Automating bot (how to make one)
   1. reads local PHP array to find all entries for language X
   2. for each entry, gets translated title off of the English wiki (i.e., for Gospel_Implications/es, it finds the title Consecuencias del evangelio)
   3. for each entry, creates a page on the target wiki, i.e., http://fr.gospeltranslations.org/wiki/ENTRY_TRANSLATED_TITLE
   4. on each page created, writes in transclusion code: {{:gt_en:ENTRY_ENGLISH_NAME}}
3. [working] Non-English wiki uses transclusion code to pull article text from English wiki. For example, the code {{:gt_en:Gospel_Implications/es}} will grab the entire article text from Gospel_Implications/es

Obviously, what is missing from the functionality right now is a working automation bot.