Brion, any chance to include the imagelinks table into the dump script, too?
You may use rebuildlinks/refreshlinks scripts from maintenance/ package. If imagelinks would be included, so should links, categorylinks, brokenlinks, math and all other metadata tables, which can be generated out from cur..
Well yes, but refreshlinks.php takes a LONG time to run and tends to bomb out eventually on my installation... so I've tried to rework the obsolete rebuildlinks script for imagelinks only, but couldn't get it to work for images included by templates etc. and finally had to give up on this. I use the imagelinks table to decide which images to include in a notebook installation - more precisely, to drop (or not to mirror) orphaned images which are not referenced by a NS_MAIN or NS_TALK article (a considerable percentage).
links, categorylinks and brokenlinks (and a couple of others) are actually included in the dump (http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/). i think the lack of imagelinks is an oversight in the dump script.
It would really help if imagelinks could be included in the dump script - doesn't use much disk space anyway.
Regards Hannes.