[Mediawiki-l] Sigh, bulk image addition--so near and yet so far...

[Rob Church]

On 17/05/06, Ken McDonald <ken at pixologic.com> wrote:
> Just to make the following intelligible without going through
> everything, I'm trying to "batch upload" images into a local MediaWiki
> site, using rebuildImages.php.  Here is Rob's reply to my most recent
> question:
>
> Either use the script I mentioned in a former post (which can be
> stolen from SVN trunk) or set $wgHashedUploadDirectory to false and
> try again.
>
>
> Rob Church
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> And, unfortunately, here is what I did in "rebuildImages.php":
>
>     function crawlMissing() {
>         global $wgUploadDirectory, $wgHashedUploadDirectory;
>         $wgHashedUploadDirectory = FALSE;
>         if( $wgHashedUploadDirectory ) {
>
> and the following command line execution and result:
>
> kenneth-mcdonalds-computer:~/Sites/mediawiki-1.6.5/maintenance Ken$ php
> rebuildImages.php --missing
> wikidb 2006-05-17 20:06:18: crawling /Users/Ken/Sites/mediawiki-1.6.5/images
> wikidb 2006-05-17 20:06:19: Surprising mime type: unknown/unknown
> wikidb 2006-05-17 20:06:19: /Users/Ken/Sites/mediawiki-1.6.5/images/README
> kenneth-mcdonalds-computer:~/Sites/mediawiki-1.6.5/maintenance Ken$
>
> I get the feeling that if only I could tell rebuildImages where I
> _really_ want it to get the new images from, I could get this to work.
> But I don't have the PHP or MW knowledge to try that with even the
> smallest likelihood of success. Can I simply set $wgUploadDirectory to
> something appropriate, and if so, is the path absolute in the computer,
> relative to the main MW directory, or specified somehow else :-)
>
> Rob mentioned another possible script I could check out from SVN, and
> I'll try that if I have to. But I feel this is _so_ close, surely I must
> be able to get it to work...and I'm not really a development geek, so
> I'd prefer to avoid messing around with Subversion.

http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance

For importImages.php and importImages.inc.php, click the file name,
hit download, and save in maintenance/ with those filenames. Then run
from the command line, pointing at a dir. full of images.

I also referred to setting $wgHashedUploadDirectory to false, but
intended for this to be set in LocalSettings.

And the script sounds like it's failing because of some weird MIME
error. Psst...the bulk importer doesn't do MIME checking at the
moment.


Rob Church