What is the current best practice for moving all images from one wiki "A" into a
second, ACTIVE wiki "B"? Requirements are:
1. Detect any image naming collisions between the two wikis, and resolve them before
import
2. Transfer all "File:..." pages from wiki "A" into wiki
"B", including their revision history
3. Transfer all images from wiki "A" into wiki "B", including all
old versions
Is /maintenance/importImages.php is the right tool? I could imagine finding all images in
the /images folder and feeding them to importImages.php. Will that work together with
importing all "File:..." pages from wiki "A" into wiki "B"
via /maintenance/importDump.php? (It won't import all revisions of each image
however....)
Or could we simply copy the /images folder from the first wiki to the second (using
ordinary filesystem copy operations), and then use /maintenance/importDump.php to import
the entire "File:" namespace from the first wiki into the second? Do all the
hashed image file paths get preserved and continue to work?
Or is there a better method? Remember that wiki "B" is active and not a new,
empty wiki.
Thanks,
DanB