Hi Rob,
This is what I did to recently import pictures. 1. download images folder from YourWikiSite 2. Remove unwanted folders, such as temp, archive and thumb (these will be recreated) 3. Flatten directory -I know that there is some way to do this with tar, or recursive copy, but I gave up and downloaded the freeware xxcopy (www.xxcopy.com) -xxcopy "C:\ImageFolder" "C:\ImageFolderFlat" /SG -Make sure to use /SG the one normally suggested renames augments the filenames. 4. Check for duplicates with YourNewWikiSite 5. Use importImages.php -php importImages.php --user=Username --comment="comments go here" ../NewImagesFolderName png -Do this for each filetype, e.g. jpg, gif, etc. --If you have problems with importImages.php, make sure you are using php5. 6. Good luck.
There are more details at http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Admin_Tasks#Import_Images_from_WikiGree....
On 1/8/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/01/07, Jan 2036@gmx.de wrote:
I successfully used this extension ... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpecialUploadLocal ... to upload nearly 1000 images to my new mw-installation.
I'd have used SCP/SFTP/whatever, and then the maintenance/importImages.php maintenance script.
Rob Church
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