PageImages stores thumbnail information on links update (roughly, when a page is edited or one of templates used by it is updated).
To populate this information, use maintenace/refreshLinks.php or extensions/PageImages/initImageData.php (does the same, but has fine-grained options to restrict the number of pages restricted which maters for larger wikis. On 20.02.2013, 19:15 Ewa wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question on the PageImages MediaWiki extension. I have > installed it on my instanse of MediaWiki apache. It looks like it is > working because with the following hit: > > api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&format=xml&pithumbsize=500&pilimit=10&titles=Paris|Lille|Rennes > > I am seeing the following response: > > <api> > <query> > <pages> > <page pageid="50116" ns="0" title="Lille"/> > <page pageid="22989" ns="0" title="Paris"/> > <page pageid="46132" ns="0" title="Rennes"/> > </pages> > </query> > </api> > > I am not able to see any images info in the response, was expecting to see > something similar to: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&format=xml&pithumbsize=500&pilimit=10&titles=Paris|Lille|Rennes > > In mysql wikipedia DB I have populated image and imagelinks table using dumps > from wikipedia. > > I am assuming that this extension uses data from page_images table > which is empty on my instance. How to populate this data (where to get the > dump from?). > > I would appreciate any answer. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
