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For MediaWiki (not necessarily Wikipedia), sometimes you want to upload really big files. An HTTP upload isn't necessarily the best way to do this, especially if it's lots of really big files (tar gzip them and uplaod via ftp then telnet in and unpackage).
If you do that, then you've got a bunch of files sitting on the webserver. Now we've got to link them into the wiki.
How would I do that?
If that's not a feature, any pointers on where to start hacking to get this to work? - -- Edward Z. Yang Personal: edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com SN:Ambush Commander Website: http://www.thewritingpot.com/ GPGKey:0x869C48DA http://www.thewritingpot.com/gpgpubkey.asc 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA
Edward Z. Yang wrote:
For MediaWiki (not necessarily Wikipedia), sometimes you want to upload really big files. An HTTP upload isn't necessarily the best way to do this, especially if it's lots of really big files (tar gzip them and uplaod via ftp then telnet in and unpackage).
I dunno about the problems of large files over HTTP, but Commonist handles multiple files nicely:
http://www.djini.de/software/commonist/
It's graphical and needs Java. But presumably it would be a Simple Matter of Programming to write a command-line one in Perl or whatever.
Unfortunately, I don't think anyone's ever come up with a web-based upload interface for multiple files that doesn't suck ... if someone knows of one, I have a few people I really want to point at it!
- d.
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