On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:46 PM, George Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am creating a program which bulk imports a ton of images to the mediawiki > "images" directory. > > I would rather use a mediawiki api call to do this, but it does not seem to > be available. > > Does anyone know the schema of the "images" directory. It appears to be > some kind of hash/tree structure in the file system. I just need to know > what the hash function is, so that I can place the image in the right > directory myself. > > I will be happy to look through the source code to see how its done as well > - could someone point me to the right src file to look at? > > Thanx, in advance! > > -George > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > includes/filerepo/LocalFile.php and LocalRepo.php
The file structure depends on you settings. On Wikimedia it is /images/md5(img_name)[0]/md5(img_name)[0:1]/img_name where img_name is the properly normalized name of the image. There should also be a maintenance script in /maintenance Bryan _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
