What is the current best practice for moving all images from one wiki "A" into a second, ACTIVE wiki "B"? Requirements are:
1. Detect any image naming collisions between the two wikis, and resolve them before import 2. Transfer all "File:..." pages from wiki "A" into wiki "B", including their revision history 3. Transfer all images from wiki "A" into wiki "B", including all old versions Is /maintenance/importImages.php is the right tool? I could imagine finding all images in the /images folder and feeding them to importImages.php. Will that work together with importing all "File:..." pages from wiki "A" into wiki "B" via /maintenance/importDump.php? (It won't import all revisions of each image however....) Or could we simply copy the /images folder from the first wiki to the second (using ordinary filesystem copy operations), and then use /maintenance/importDump.php to import the entire "File:" namespace from the first wiki into the second? Do all the hashed image file paths get preserved and continue to work? Or is there a better method? Remember that wiki "B" is active and not a new, empty wiki. Thanks, DanB _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
