2009/11/23 Jani Patokallio jpatokal@iki.fi:

2009/11/23 Roan Kattouw:

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You need to use action=import, not action=upload to import files. Uploading the file as described there does not mean uploading it with action=upload, but uploading/embedding it in an HTTP request to action=import.

Thanks, but can you give me the exact format and preferably a sample request for doing this?  It's not clear from the documentation.

It's done the exact same way as uploading a file with action=upload, except that the name of the parameter is 'xml', not 'file'. I've updated the documentation for import [1] and upload [2] to mention this.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Import [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Uploading_files