Since the Images files on Wikimedia.org are in a constant state of flux and the last 80GB archive of images is 8 months old (made in November of 2005) I wrote a program in C that scans an XML dump of the English Wikipedia, then constructs and outputs a bash script that uses CURL in a non-obtrusive manner to download any missing images from Wikipedia commons and Wikipedia. The program runs in background and is low impact. invoke from your /MediaWiki/images/ directory as: /wikix/wikix < enwiki-<date>-pages-articles.xml > image_sh & ./image_sh >& image.log & The program will invoke CURL (if loaded) after it outputs a full download script which will resync any remote wiki with the master images on Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons. Enjoy. The source code and makefiles are attached as text (since the program is small) and the tar gz is also available from ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/images Jeff V. Merkey all: wikix wikix: wikix.c gcc -g wikix.c -o wikix -lssl clean: rm -f wikix _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l