Yes I'm aware that wiki is not the perfect tool for the job. However the fact that I already have it running and have (finally) convinced people it's an excellent piece of software means I'd really like to try :).
I'll look at your links though for sure.
Bart
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Damir Perisa Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:24 AM To: mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] batch image upload
On Friday 18 February 2005 16:03, Bart Q. Simon wrote:
The overall idea is that I'd like users to see a very large list of images, be able to click on any image, and then comment on it. It all seems workable except the part about actually getting the images into wiki and automatically building the gallery page :).
i don't think a wiki is the right tool for something like this ...
try something like this: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/
in action it looks like this:
http://www.calcutta-project.ch/galleries/index.php
hope it is usable input,
Damir Perisa
On Friday 18 February 2005 16:27, Bart Q. Simon wrote:
However the fact that I already have it running and have (finally) convinced people it's an excellent piece of software means I'd really like to try :).
ok, there is always a way ... wiki is maybe not the easiest way, but there is always the possibility to write extensions ;-)
what about a script on the server that generates your gallery pages? you can upload the images using ftp or scp and then start the script remotely that generates your "gallery" ... and if you use perl, you can make it a nice cgi-script without any shell needed ... or make it a cron-job that runs at midnight or something like this
just an idea,
good luck with your project,
Damir Perisa
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