[Commons-l] batch upload problems of museum photos (got permission)

[Magnus Manske]

On 8/27/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/07, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried Commonist.  It crashed halfway through with half the files
> > supposedly transferred, when my internet connection dropped briefly.  None
>
> Feh. Improving that tool (or providing something like it) should be on
> our priority list.

I would like to mention (again) that there is upload-from-http
capability in MediaWiki already, only not reviewed and disabled.
Writing a toolserver script to mass-transfer images from a http/ftp
site would likely be trivial if this were enabled.

Go bug the admins ;-)

Cheers,
Magnus