Extension:UploadLocal

SpecialUploadLocal is an extension which allows the "uploading" of files already residing on the server into MediaWiki, by a special page on your mediawiki. This has numerous practical applications, notably the streamlining of the upload of large files, renaming of image files, and the ability to mass upload. Note that for this extension to be useful, the user must have FTP access.

Installation
Open the tarball or zip folder "SpecialUploadLocal". Extract the "SpecialUploadLocal" folders with all of the subfolders and files into your extensions/ directory. A SpecialUploadLocal folder should be created in your directory.

In LocalSettings.php, add this line:

Optional settings
The default folder where the upload files are uploaded, is set by, so you can set it to whatever you want. The default is:

Also, the extension adds a new right called  and a new user group, uploader, along with sysop, are allowed to use this extension. You can change this however you want, although remember, in order for the extension to be useful, the user must also have FTP access.

1.15 and before
An earlier version of this extentsion works for 1.15 and some mediawiki version prior. See the older version of this page for details. No version of this extension works with 1.16.

Use
Upload files (via FTP) into the directory  (or whatever folder you set   to).

Then go to Special:SpecialUploadLocal and you should see the files you uploaded listed there.