Extension:MultiUpload

This extension is now in process of migration to git. Latest snapshot in svn doesn't work with new mediawiki. Please contact Wonder in case you need any help.

The MultiUpload extension allows users to upload more than one file at a time. It aso unpacks package files (, ,  , and  ), allowing the files found in the package to be uploaded to the wiki.

Installation
For this extension to work, you have to have already allowed uploads on your wiki, see page>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuring file uploads|Manual:Configuring file uploads.

In the sidebar
To add a link to the sidebar by editing sidebar>Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki:Sidebar|MediaWiki:Sidebar, adding a new line: or In both examples of adding links to this extension in sidebar>Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki:Sidebar|MediaWiki:Sidebar, if only "multipleupload" or "multipleupload-toolbox" shows in the sidebar, you may have to navigate in your wiki to "MediaWiki:Multipleupload" or "MediaWiki:Multipleupload-toolbox" and create the pages with the messages that are already shown.

Replacing 'Upload file' with MultiUpload in the sidebar
In the LocalSettings.php file, right below the last require_once line add:

Setting the maximum number of files to upload
As of r115614>Special:Code/MediaWiki/115614|r115614, the $wgMaxUploadFiles global isn't respected. After that commit, members of the staff group could upload 40 files at once via Special:MultiUpload, whereas sysop group could upload 20 at once, autoconfirmed could upload 10 and all other registered users could upload 5 files at once. Now, after [https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMultiUpload/4bdbaffab42a481f84ca86c072a0aee97ad1a164 complete replacement of the source code], it begins with one file and adds more as files are selected, with no upper limit.

To set the number of files to upload at once, Configure  in your local settings file, the default setting is 5. The  statement must be made after the   call. For example:

Messages
These messages and their names have changed since April 9, 2014, when the extension was rewritten. Notably, the message displayed on the top of the special page is now called, no longer. Some of the older extension messages no longer exist.

You can change the messages of this extension through pages of MediaWiki namespace starting with multipleupload. For example,   is the message displayed on MultipleUpload special page.

Other messages are:

Sites that use MultiUpload

 * see here for sites that use MultiUpload