[Mediawiki-l] batch image upload

[Richard Holton]

MediaWiki is written in PHP, using MySQL functions. You certainly can
write server-side tools using PHP.

If you look in the "maintenance" directory of the MediaWiki software
you can find some examples of tools that update the database.

-Rich Holton


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:27:58 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked a similar question a few days ago, and got no response.
> 
> Pywikimediabot looks like it's a framework for writing http client
> bots which manipulate a wiki.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a start on writing server side tools instead
> of  client bots.
> 
> I've already got a lot of image files on the server where my wiki is
> running which I'd like to "upload" without going through the web
> interface.  What I've got in mind is a tool which I can give a list of
> image files to, and which will move or copy  them to the right place,
> and do the sql work to build the image pages.  The image description
> could be a simple default, or might come from an auxiliary file which
> I could make up with a text editor, and then let the tool run while
> I'm taking a nap <G>.
> 
> Has anyone done anything like this, or anything with server side
> mediawiki tools in general?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:37:38 -0800, Michelle <mme2002 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > When this question was asked before, Brion recommended this:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot
> >
> > I have no idea how it applies, but maybe it will help.
> > Michelle
> >
> > On Feb 18, 2005, at 7:03 AM, Bart Q. Simon wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, very useful mailing list here.
> > >
> > > Question:
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a workable method for uploading multiple files (images
> > > in my case) to wiki?
> >
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