I don't think that the copyright issues will be a big deal; in practice, nobody is likely to raise an objection after you to upload the content. Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Anyhoo, this doesn't sound like a particularly difficult thing you're trying to do, although you'll need to figure out how to write a PHP script to control the botclasses.php file they mentioned. There is probably already code out there on the internet that can recursively spider the directory system and give you a list of all the files and their paths; then you just feed that into your bot, after telling it to upload everything in the file it's given, and you're done. Actually, I need to do a similar project on my wiki, so maybe I'll write that code and then can give it to you. Tisane ( talk) 21:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
$path
in that script. Is that intentional? Anyway I'll give this a trial run on the current server when I have time. It may be a week or so until I can do this on the new server. Thank you once again. :) —
surlyanduncouth (
talk)
17:54, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
It's probably fixable. What OS are you running? If you have shell access to a Linux server, chances are it has PHP. Then of course there is always the possibility of downloading PHP. http://php.net/downloads.php Tisane talk/ stalk 05:15, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Just so you know, we have a new bot framework called Peachy that is a lot better than Wikibot, and is probably the one that the other PHP bot frameworks will be phased out in favor of. It's pretty well-coded and well-documented, plus it's easily configurable and extensible, so I would recommend going with that one if you have more bot-related stuff to do. Tisane talk/ stalk 16:30, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't think that the copyright issues will be a big deal; in practice, nobody is likely to raise an objection after you to upload the content. Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Anyhoo, this doesn't sound like a particularly difficult thing you're trying to do, although you'll need to figure out how to write a PHP script to control the botclasses.php file they mentioned. There is probably already code out there on the internet that can recursively spider the directory system and give you a list of all the files and their paths; then you just feed that into your bot, after telling it to upload everything in the file it's given, and you're done. Actually, I need to do a similar project on my wiki, so maybe I'll write that code and then can give it to you. Tisane ( talk) 21:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
$path
in that script. Is that intentional? Anyway I'll give this a trial run on the current server when I have time. It may be a week or so until I can do this on the new server. Thank you once again. :) —
surlyanduncouth (
talk)
17:54, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
It's probably fixable. What OS are you running? If you have shell access to a Linux server, chances are it has PHP. Then of course there is always the possibility of downloading PHP. http://php.net/downloads.php Tisane talk/ stalk 05:15, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Just so you know, we have a new bot framework called Peachy that is a lot better than Wikibot, and is probably the one that the other PHP bot frameworks will be phased out in favor of. It's pretty well-coded and well-documented, plus it's easily configurable and extensible, so I would recommend going with that one if you have more bot-related stuff to do. Tisane talk/ stalk 16:30, 1 July 2010 (UTC)