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With the AppleScript of this post you can create automatically the necessary text, which is for our example the following:

===DevonThink scripts===
Number of files: 0

/MBSystem/Users/MB/Downloads/DevonThink scripts/

====Camino====
Number of files: 3

/MBSystem/Users/MB/Downloads/DevonThink scripts/Camino/

Add PDF document to DEVONthink.scpt

Add link to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add web document to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>

====DEVONagent====
Number of files: 11

/MBSystem/Users/MB/Downloads/DevonThink scripts/DEVONagent/

Add PDF document to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add abstracts to DEVONthink Pro.scpt<br/>
Add linked images to DEVONthink’s downloads.scpt

Add linked images to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add links to DEVONthink’s downloads.scpt

Add links to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add page to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add selection to DEVONthink.scpt

Add tabs to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add text to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add web document to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>

====Firefox====
Number of files: 3

/MBSystem/Users/MB/Downloads/DevonThink scripts/Firefox/

Add PDF document to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add link to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>
Add web document to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>

====endo====
Number of files: 1

/MBSystem/Users/MB/Downloads/DevonThink scripts/endo/

Add news to DEVONthink.scpt<br/>

As you can see the folder hierarchy is recreated as a hierarchy of MediaWiki sections. Also the number of files in each folder and its path are added under the name of the corresponding section. If you choose to apply this AppleScript in a folder structure with thousands of files there will no be any problem but it will take a long time to finish.  The result is sent to the clipboard.

The AppleScript code is the following:

Click here to see the source code

set folderContents to show_folder_hierarchy(choose folder, "=") of me
 
set the clipboard to folderContents
--this subroutine is an expansion of an example from the book Learn AppleScript - The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting on Mac OS X (p. 485-486)
on show_folder_hierarchy(the_folder, the_indent)
    --process this folder
    tell application "Finder"
        set folderContents to get files of the_folder
        set numberOfFiles to count items of folderContents
 
        set folderName to the_folder as alias
        set folderNamePOSIX to get the POSIX path of folderName
set folderPATH to "
" & folderNamePOSIX & "
"
 
        set fileNames to ""
        repeat with currentFile from 1 to numberOfFiles
            set fileNames to fileNames & name of item currentFile of folderContents & "
" & return
        end repeat
        set the_result to the_indent & "==" & name of the_folder & "==" & the_indent & return & "Number of files: " & numberOfFiles & folderPATH & return & fileNames & return
    end tell
 
    --process each sub-folder in turn
    tell application "Finder"
        repeat with sub_folder_ref in (get every folder of the_folder)
            set the_result to the_result & my show_folder_hierarchy(contents of sub_folder_ref, the_indent & "=")
        end repeat
    end tell
    return the_result
 
end show_folder_hierarchy

2011-05-20 I updated the code which creates the POSIX paths of the folders.