[Mediawiki-l] wiki family and shared resources

[Mij]

Hello,

Some people answered to this post asking for the code I used for
importing preserving the media's metadata.
I attach it here. For usage instructions see --help. For more details,
see the comments heading the smartImportImages.php file.
If there is a formal submission process for contribs, sorry for not
following it.

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On Jan 12, 2010, at 16:46 , Mij wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> We want to implement a MW-based WikiFamily with a reserved "pool" instance,
> very similarly to Wikipedia, but we're encountering some problems with the media sharing.
> 
> We followed this process:
> 1) we started from
> 	- three language instances
> 	- containing about 1000 images altogether
> 	- configured with Wikipedia-style URL scheme:  http://<lang>.domain.com/wiki/<Node>
> 2) we installed and set up one "pool" wiki instance, according to "Scenario 5"
> of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family
> 3) we modified maintenance/importImages.php to import automatically from any
> language instance to the "pool" all images along with metadata (description, author etc)
> 
> The pool contains all medias of all language instances, and the "Upload file" link in the
> toolbox of each wiki points to the pool's Special:Upload correctly.
> 
> The relevant configuration for the language wikis is as follows:
> ===
> $wgUploadNavigationUrl = "http://pool.domain.com/wiki/Special:Upload";
> $wgUseSharedUploads = true;
> $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://pool.domain.com/wiki/File:';
> $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/var/www/wikis/wiki-pool/images/';
> $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;
> $wgEnableUploads = false;
> ===
> 
> 
> However, trying to enforce the "pool fallback lookup" documented
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseSharedUploads
> we tried moving away the instance's own images/ directory. Doing this, all images
> result into a broken link.
> 
> We suspect the problem is in a misconfiguration of $wgSharedUploadPath , which
> isn't quite clear from the WikiFamily example or its own documentation, but cannot
> track down the problem more specifically.
> Notably, we observed that none of the includes/filerepo/* files is loaded.
> 
> Can anyone help out with nailing down this problem?
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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