cirwin at #wiktionary showed me a better way of doing this using
python. Here is how-to for the curious:
svn co
https://mwclient.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mwclient/trunk
cd trunk
phython #at least python 2.4 is needed (see the README.txt that comes
with mwclient)
import mwclient
commons = mwclient.Site('commons.wikimedia.org')
for img in commons.pages['Category:French pronunciation'].members():
if img.name.endswith('.ogg'):
print img.name.encode('utf-8')
saveas = open(u"/tmp/%s" % img.name[5:],'w')
remote = img.download()
saveas.write(remote.read())
saveas.close()
Then Ctrl-D to get out of python. This is going to populate your /tmp/
folder with all the ogg files (130M).
I forgot to ask cirwin about how to keep the local copy up-to-date so
if anyone here is familiar with python or mwclien or knows Bryan
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bryan
and can get an answer from him (or cirwin) I would
appreciate it
very much.
Thanks,