On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:59 AM, dan entous <[email protected] > wrote:
> context > ------- > i’m working on a mediawiki extension, > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GWToolset, which has as one of its > goals, the ability to upload media files to a wiki. the extension, among > other tasks, will process an XML file that has a list of urls to media > files and upload those media files to the wiki along with metadata > contained within the XML file. our ideal goal is to have this extension run > on http://commons.wikimedia.org/ <onhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/>. > Check out the 'DataPages' subdirectory in the mediawiki/extensions/examples repository (< https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2Fexamples.git>). It was designed to showcase how to work with ContentHandler, and it does so by implementing an XML content type and namespace. > > we initially developed the extension to store the files in the File: > namespace, but we were told by the Foundation that we should use > ContentHandler instead. unfortunately there is an issue with storing > content > 1mb in the db so we need to find another solution. > That's a lot of XML! You can gzip page content, FWIW. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
