Forum:Importing lots of images from Wikia?

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I want to be able to import a bunch of images from a Wikia site over to my Shoutwiki site. The problem is, things like Special:Export don't actually export the image file, just the image page, so it's not very helpful. I don't really want to have to do it all manually because it will take a lot of time. I found this thing on MediaWiki called "imagetransfer.py" (link here) which I think can be used with the PAWS thing? (Which I have working kind of ...) but it doesn't really give any examples on how to fill it out properly. Also I don't really have a lot of experience with coding either so a lot of it seems really complicated to me.

Also another quick question unrelated to this ... how do I change the privacy settings of my private wiki so that other people can view it, but only certain users may edit? Nyro the Leopard (talk) 22:28, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

For your first question, using scripts is generally the only way to transfer images. There's one way explained here, but the general idea is to download all the images from one wiki, then create File: pages for them on another wiki. It's mostly a matter of what scripting language you know best. For your second question, I can think of a couple ways. You could:

• create (or re-use) a user group, giving only that group edit, createpage, and a few other privileges;
• use AbuseFilter to block anyone not explicitly listed in the filter from editing or creating new pages;
• (unsure of this one) convert the wiki to a private wiki, but list all the pages as publicly viewable.

Shoutwiki staff would probably have a preference for how to do it (like probably not AbuseFilter) and maybe an option I didn't list. --Saftzie (talk) 21:06, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

So the best way for you to do all of these would be to let staff deal with it for you. Particularly in the case of the second question, currently it's only staff can sort that without you protecting every page. Drop the Community Support team a ticket if you haven't already. As Saftzie noted, you can move images yourself, either by script or manually but it is complicated, time-consuming and prefer you ask us to do it as it is messy and far more expensive than doing it via the backend. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 07:14, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the responses! I'm currently attempting at using the perl coding way that Saftzie linked me to. I'm like halfway through it, though on the code for step 2 I'm not really sure what to put for the two "my $reject" parts. Though if I can't figure it out hopefully I can get the staff to do it. Also I have sent a ticket to the Shoutwiki staff about the privacy settings, no response yet but hopefully there will be one soon.

Nyro the Leopard (talk) 21:55, 6 April 2016 (UTC)