Extension talk:ImportFreeImages

favorite extensions ever
Travis, this is one of my favorite extensions ever. Thank you so much. I hope I can find time to help streamline the selection process; it would be great to be able to use this extension with a gallery, whereby you
 * Have a gallery of images on a wiki, each of which has a categorized description page
 * Pass over the gallery looking for substitutes or similar images for each of those sets of categories/tags on flickr, giving the newly-uploaded file a name like "image2" where "image" was the name of the one being substituted

Use case: I could use this to populate, say, the Logos Children's Dictionary, which has great words but poor clipart images, with better images : scriptably upload each of the images, tagged by the word it is supposed to represent. Generate a gallery of these images, from the list of words. Run this extension over the gallery, creating a second gallery, titled "word2" for each word in the list. View the original and final galleries side by side, to make sure the selections were right, then replace the former with the latter.

Sj 22:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * +1! A very neat extension.
 * And just a note for the curious ones who want to follow the thread on the mailing list later:

(Wikitech-l) ImportFreeImages Extension; Travis Derouin; Fri Dec 8 20:57:43 UTC 2006 -- :Bdk: 00:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Corrected mailing list link. Dammit, why couldn't they put redirects! 66.81.19.162 22:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.12
In MediaWiki 1.12 UploadForm class has changed.

Quick fix to your extension:

In file "ImportFreeImages.php" change: $u = new UploadForm($wgRequest); $u->mUploadTempName = $name; $u->mUploadSize = $size; $u->mUploadDescription = $caption; $u->mRemoveTempFile = true; $u->mIgnoreWarning = true; $u->mOname = $filename; $t = Title::newFromText($filename, NS_IMAGE);

to: $u = new UploadForm($wgRequest); $u->mTempPath = $name; $u->mFileSize = $size; $u->mComment = $caption; $u->mSrcName = $filename; $u->mRemoveTempFile = true; $u->mIgnoreWarning = true; $t = Title::newFromText($filename, NS_IMAGE);

Marooned (at) wikia.com --213.156.101.77 12:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I just committed a new version to SVN that fixes this issue (and a lot of other issues, among them some security problems). So anyone using MW 1.11+ should check out the new version (Note: I only tested the new extension code with the current MediaWiki SVN, so if it fails with 1.11, please report it here). --Tbleher 13:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Help! Every file get a name like this: Null-xxx.jpg'''
Hi,

I'm the webmaster (not professional) of a new french educational project... a kind of wikipedia for pupils of the primary school. I installed this NICE and very useful extension on my wiki and it works well... I set up the $wgIFI_PromptForFilename to true because images stored in our wiki need to have explicit names. The problem is that the Javascript prompt window never appears (actually just a few milliseconds) and every file get a name like this: Null-xxx.jpg It would be very kind if someone could help. (Sorry for my poor english). --212.117.116.190 10:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem occurs on IE7 with default (!) security settings... this is really anoying! -- 22:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Sample?
Is there somewhere an example where we can test this extension? That would be very helpful in order to find out if it solves our current problem. My best, --Gollum 16:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Import does not work
When I try to import a picture I get teh maessage that the picture is empty.

"Die hochgeladene Datei ist leer. Der Grund kann ein Tippfehler im Dateinamen sein. Bitte kontrolliere, ob du die Datei wirklich hochladen willst."

"The uploaded file is empty. This might be due to a typing error in the file name. Please check whether you upload the file really want."

--DaSch