[Mediawiki-l] incomplete import

[Jim Hu]

If you wanted to be even cuter, you could make a wiki page where  
users list what they want imported, and have a watchlist trigger the  
import instead of a cron job.

i.e. change in the import list page sends an email to a robot  
account, which triggers on receipt of the email, loads whatever is  
desired, and clears the page.  You could even send error messages to  
the Talk page!

Jim

On Jul 29, 2007, at 5:02 AM, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:

> (... large imports failing through the web interface likely due to
> timeouts...)
> I just realized there might be an easy way out of this.
>
> My biggest concern right now is easyness of use.
> A set of users generates a lot of data through a database
> and I'd like this data to be uploaded in MW for the benefit
> of all other users. The Special:Import page is easy enough
> for them to use but has the problem I described in
> previous messages. Even raising the timeout tolerances,
> i.e. in php.ini or in the webserver if necessary, is unlikely
> to solve once and for all this, especially given the lack of
> error messages which would lead to puzzled users in case
> those tolerances are exceeded.
>
> Unfortunately using command line tools such as those
> in mediawiki/maintenance would be uncomfortable to
> those users generating the data.
>
> I've been wondering then: could a scheduled event
> (a cronjob or a windows equivalent) run a script
> to check the content of an import directory where users
> put the files to be imported in MW, and, if new files are
> found, trigger the execution of the import script?
> The same thing could be done with images I'd imagine.
>
> This way the users would only have to worry about
> saving or transferring the files to be imported in the right
> location, confident that they'd be uploaded, say, every
> 15 minutes.
>
> Does anybody see any drawbacks with this method?
>
> Ciao!
>
> Manu
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Jim Hu
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