Hi Brianna
Brianna Laugher schrieb:
2008/11/6 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
Could an extension avoid the need for manually uploading images? (Or, is there any prospect that files will work properly with special:export?)
I suppose one sane way of doing this would be to make a (pk)zip or tar(gz) archive of a) an xml-dump of the appropriate pages and b) the images used in them. Writing a shell script to unpack the bundle, and the run importImages.php on the images and importDump.php on the XML would be trivial enough. Writing Special:ImportBundle would be nicer, and not too terribly complex either, I suppose.
If I organise a bundle of, say, 20 templates, will you help/teach me to set up such scripts for an extension and/or create Special:ImportBundle?
Hm... it's not so hard, but not quite trivial either. How much experience to you have writing extensions?
It's an interesting little project, and I'd be happy to do it -- but at the moment, I either do it on Wikimedia's time, or I don't do it. So, I'll have to ask if they want it :) I think there's a good chance, but it's not high priority, so it may take a while.
-- daniel