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.
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! > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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