2008/4/22 Stuart, Ryan (CIV) rlstuart@nps.edu:
Is there a way to upload files en masse to wikipedia.org? My organization has been running its own MediaWiki installation but would like to move these files to Wikipedia. We have 771 pages and 156 image files in our current wiki. We'd like to start our own portal on the subject (net-centric warfare) as none currently exists. All advice appreciated, including whether there's a better way than a portal.
Dumping wiki text en masse is likely to produce a backlash (of silliness) from the English Wikipedia community. Start small. Or, say "here's a bunch of text we're releasing as GFDL, have at it" and work with the existing community to get stuff done with it - that's likely to work very nicely.
An image donation dump to Commons would be most warmly welcomed - anything under a proper free licence is suitable. For mass upload, Commonist works quite well in my experience - it's a Java app that will upload a directory of files. Worked fine for me on Linux when I tried it. http://djini.de/software/commonist/
(cc'd to wikien-l for the text aspect and people who would be interested in working with you, commons-l re: the image dump)
- d.