Thread:Project:Support desk/Import of 400+ files into MediaWiki 1.19

Hi everybody,

I have the problem to copy all our old files (docs, jpg, ...) from MW 1.8.3 DB to our new MW 1.19. I was looking into the Multi-Upload extension which I got running under MW 1.19, but it has the limitation of only uploading a fix number of files at one load time. What I would really appreciate is to have a possibility to have a list box or multi line entry field to fill in the files list and than start the upload into the database. Because a list of 400+ files would not be nice to import by hand ! I also read a help page here which showed a way to import files with Perl, did anybody try this ? Please can somebody help me in this case ? Thanx

Update:

is the ImportImage.php maintenance module also able to do what I need including the Description of each Image ?