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Rob Church wrote:
On 17/12/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Special:Export and Special:Import do not handle
images at this time.
There's some specs for it in the XML format but currently it's only used
by the OAI feed system.
What might be the best approach to making this work, then? Chucking
the filename in the XML somewhere and having Special:Import do a local
copy, if possible?
That's pretty much how it would work if you implemented the spec. I
stashed an example in docs/export-demo.xml:
<page>
<title>Image:Some image.jpg</title>
[snip]
<upload>
<timestamp>2001-01-15T20:34:12Z</timestamp>
<contributor><username>Foobar</username><id>42</id></contributor>
<comment>My awesomeest image!</comment>
<filename>Some_image.jpg</filename>
<src>http://upload.wikimedia.org/commons/2/22/Some_image.jpg</src>
<size>12345</size>
</upload>
</page>
Probably not too hard to hack up, actually, if someone wants to give it
a try.
to import the image history, and use SpecialImport for the description
page only.
Magnus