[Mediawiki-l] Batch overwriting of existing images?

[Ken McDonald]

Can anyone suggest an easy way to do an 'import' of (many) images that 
are actually updates of previously existing images (and have the same 
names)? Even if I modify the first existence test in the importImages 
script, I'm guessing that the statement, 
    $image->recordUpload( '', 'Importing image file' )
will still fail because the database (or other MW code) will prevent 
overwriting of an existing file by another file.

At the moment the best way I can think of to do this is to simply write 
a script that would go through the 'images' directory and a directory of 
the new images, and replace on the basis of names. Even there, I'm not 
sure if the metadata will change appropriately, nor if it needs to.

Thanks,
Ken