New subject: [Pywikipedia-l] Bot to upload all files for which a broken file link exist

25 Feb 2015

Hi,

About a month ago I transferred from a Wikia wiki 
(health-and-medicine.wikia.com) to a local wiki and much of what I did 
was I went to Special:Export on Wikia, entered major categories and 
exported all pages belonging to these categories and then went to 
Special:Import on my local wiki to import the XML files the Wikia export 
had generated (XML dumps weren't a viable option as Special:Import 
couldn't handle the massive file generated from the dumps). This Wikia 
wiki has several hundred pictures that I still need to upload to my 
local wiki and I was wondering if there was a Pywiki script that could 
do this job for me, or at least do it for files that are linked in the 
pages I have so far imported (i.e., files mentioned in broken file 
links). I have user_config.py already setup for working with these two 
wikis (i.e., content:

    |# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-|||
    |||family = 'local'|||
    |||mylang = 'en'|||
    |||usernames['hmwiki']['hmwiki'] = u'MyFirstBot'|||
    |||usernames['local']['en'] = u'MyFirstBot'|

where hmwiki has been defined via generate_family_file.py) if you're 
wondering.

I am a noob when it comes to python and Pywikibot so if you have an 
answer I'd appreciate it if you could boil it down into simple lines of 
code to run in the command prompt (I'm on 64 bit Windows 7 SP1).

Thanks for your time,
Brenton