Difference between revisions of "Batch importing media files into MediaWiki"

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  cd /var/www/testwiki; php ./maintenance/importImages.php  --conf ./LocalSettings.php --comment="My Comment" --user="MyUser" <<temp_dir>> jpg gif png
 
  cd /var/www/testwiki; php ./maintenance/importImages.php  --conf ./LocalSettings.php --comment="My Comment" --user="MyUser" <<temp_dir>> jpg gif png
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If no comment is added a default comment "Importing image file" will be inserted by mediawiki. The default user if none is added is "Maintenance script".
  
 
Important: for all batchimporting, revisiondate must be set to something newer than all old revisions; else mediawiki will sort the imported revision '''behind''' existing revisions. The id in the imported xml is not necessary, however.
 
Important: for all batchimporting, revisiondate must be set to something newer than all old revisions; else mediawiki will sort the imported revision '''behind''' existing revisions. The id in the imported xml is not necessary, however.

Revision as of 12:45, 24 November 2009

Importing the binary data

cd /var/www/testwiki; php ./maintenance/importImages.php  --conf ./LocalSettings.php --comment="My Comment" --user="MyUser" <<temp_dir>> jpg gif png

If no comment is added a default comment "Importing image file" will be inserted by mediawiki. The default user if none is added is "Maintenance script".

Important: for all batchimporting, revisiondate must be set to something newer than all old revisions; else mediawiki will sort the imported revision behind existing revisions. The id in the imported xml is not necessary, however.

For usernames the name, not the ID counts.

By default, the XML importing version of the web interface limits filesizes to around 1.4 MB. This can be changed by the server admin (or you in php.ini in maxuploadsize=); for larger imports using


See also: Creating Mediawiki XML imports (i.e. import text for pages)