Creating entities & wikitexts

To create one thousand items with the already created JSON representation of an item, use:

from RaiseWikibase.raiser import batch
batch(content_model='wikibase-item', texts=[item for i in range(1000)])

Let wtext is a Python string representing a wikitext. Then, wikitexts = [wtext for i in range(1000)] is a list of wikitexts and page_titles = ['wikitext' + str(i) for i in range(1000)] is a list of the corresponding page titles. To create one thousand wikitexts in the main namespace, use:

batch(content_model='wikitext', texts=wikitexts, namespace=0, page_title=page_titles)

The dictionary of namespaces can be found here:

from RaiseWikibase.datamodel import namespaces

The ID for the main namespace namespaces['main'] is 0.

Alternatively, the page function can be used directly. First, a connection object is created. The page function executes the necessary inserts, the changes are commited and the connection is closed:

from RaiseWikibase.dbconnection import DBConnection
from RaiseWikibase.raiser import page
connection = DBConnection()
page(connection=connection, content_model=content_model,
     namespace=namespace, text=text, page_title=page_title, new=True)
connection.conn.commit()
connection.conn.close()

The argument new specifies whether the page is created (new=True) or edited (new=False). The new argument can be used in the batch function as well.