Any way to create a bunch of pages without having to make clicks for each insertion?

Ok, seems like "Data transfer" extensions is pretty easy to manage. Just modify XML type data manually and make and import will create all pages we have defined.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Data_Transfer

Maiser (talk)

The smartMediaWiki approach helps creating pages dynamically. See my talks at SMW Con Spring 2015

Wolfgang Fahl (talk)