Karl-

Is there a better way than uploading files with http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Upload ? This is much too slow (too many clicks) if you want to upload more than a single file.

Try this Perl script (replace string constants accordingly). You need to be logged in, so copy your cookies.txt to the directory where the script is run:

#!/usr/bin/perl my @files=glob("fayum-??.jpg"); use LWP::Simple; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request; use HTTP::Response; use HTML::LinkExtor; use HTTP::Cookies; my $browser=LWP::UserAgent->new(); my @ns_headers = ( 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)', 'Accept' => 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*', 'Accept-Charset' => 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8', 'Accept-Language' => 'en-US', ); $browser->cookie_jar( HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new('file' => 'cookies.txt'));

foreach $file(@files) { my $response=$browser->post("http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload", @ns_headers,Content_Type=>'form-data',Content=> [ wpUploadFile=>[$file], wpUploadDescription=>"Large version of portrait for [[Gallery of Fayum mummy portraits]]. Scanned and/or edited by [[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]], [[public domain]] picture.", wpUploadAffirm=>"1", wpUpload=>"Upload file", wpIgnoreWarning=>"1" ]); push @responses,$response->content; } open(RESPO,">responses.txt"); print RESPO @responses; close(RESPO);