[Mediawiki-l] Sigh, bulk image addition--so near and yet so far...

Fri May 19 01:29:24 UTC 2006

Are you on a mac? It took me three steps, maybe 20 clicks and a few  
keys, to have mediawiki checked out of SVN.

On May 18, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Ken McDonald wrote:
>> And the script sounds like it's failing because of some weird MIME
>> error. Psst...the bulk importer doesn't do MIME checking at the
>> moment.
>>
>>
>> Rob Church
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> I didn't even know images could have mime types associated with them,
> except via their extensions which I assume are set correctly since  
> I can
> do manual uploads :-)
>
> In any case, Rob, I think you're right, it's time to try the batch
> importers. Sigh, install SVN, figure out how to download, figure  
> out to
> configure, figure out how to use--I suppose this is the kind of thing
> they pay me decent money for, but surely I'm not the only one to
> question the assertion that computers make things more efficient :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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