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_WikiGre….
On 1/8/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/01/07, Jan <2036(a)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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