Community Suggestion: Ability to bulk upload NPCs, location, organisations into the appropriate articles
Ability to bulk upload NPCs, location, organisations into the appropriate articles
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
I've been chatting with my favorite AI co-conspiritor to come up with loctions and NPC's and I'm pretty happy with what we've established.
However, there are 30+ locations, 7 factions, 50+ NPC's all for one city.
I cant work out how to iport these (they're currently in a CSV file) into the appropriate articles/NPC/Organisations.
It would be realy hady to be able to collaborate externaly, then add these directly into the correct places, rather than having to copy paste everything.
Imagine, going to the NPC page (supporting cast) and having an import button. 1 minute later you have 60 npc's ready to go.
Same with organisations and locations. in fact for each of the article types, have an import feature.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
If I could import these entities, my life would be easier. then I'd just have to create some art work.
What are other uses for this feature request?
Anyone creatingcontentexternaly could use an agreed/provided format and import as many things at once, without having to copy paste.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! This isn't a priority for us currently, and there doesn't seem to be much support from the community, so it won't be implemented.12/300 Votes · +700 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by ISpeakDragonese
on 2026-04-30 21:48 -
-300
by WeStanNikolai
on 2026-04-24 14:35I doubt it would be worth the time and effort needed to develop this - I'd rather the dev team work on other features than this
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-100
by A Enfeebled Dragon
on 2026-04-22 17:21 -
-1
by loupon
on 2026-04-12 08:52I can't imagine this being easily compatible with world anvil's framework, nor something that would encourage or work well with the very thought provoking layout of world anvils prompts system
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-300
by devinsxdesigns
on 2026-04-03 20:01Not interested in anything that makes it easier to use AI to create content. Especially when the request can't be bothered to check spelling or anything else before posting...
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+100
by facefirst
on 2026-04-02 18:35 -
+300
by A Goodhearted Bananafolk
on 2026-04-01 09:08 -
+300
by Aparre
on 2026-03-22 06:07 -
+1
by Those2Nerds
on 2026-03-16 14:27It'd be nice to have some way to help people bulk-import pre-existing notes into WA. However, any importer would likely need the input to be a specific format to indicate title, template, and where the article starts/ends. I'm not sure reformatting notes to satisfy an importer's needs is any easier or faster than Ye Olde Copy & Paste. Considering it'd be something only some people would use, and likely only once, I'm not sure it's worth it for WA to develop, document, and support going forward.
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-1
by Michael Chandra
on 2026-03-15 15:50What to import and how would differ per person, so I don't think it's worth the time for the WA team. That said, you can get an API key and program your own tool to create articles for you.
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+1
by kaixabu
on 2026-03-15 13:03 -
+100
by ss2020
on 2026-03-15 05:02I like the idea but I think it has been asked and rejected before But lets try.
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+300
by jporra
on 2026-03-14 07:43
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