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I want to upload a bunch of pictures (PNG, approx. one thousand) to Wikia (if I understand it correctly it runs MediaWiki under the hood).

Is there a way to just select a directory on my PC, select a category it should be put to and let it automatically upload all the files?

I tried MultiUploader, but it throws a bunch of errors and even if it was working I don't know how to add all those newly uploaded images to one category.

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  • Is it your server? Do you have an FTP account to login to manage it?
    – Raystafarian
    Aug 1, 2013 at 9:31
  • No, it's not my server and I don't think they provide FTP access :( - wikia.
    – monnef
    Aug 1, 2013 at 12:56
  • Can you use the API to upload?
    – Raystafarian
    Aug 1, 2013 at 13:29
  • I was kinda hoping that there is some multi-upload tool already done, but only ones I found were server-side extensions.
    – monnef
    Aug 1, 2013 at 16:16

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There are several good options using the MediaWiki web API.

With a graphical interface: use VicuñaUploader. Not much to say, basically just install it and enter your wiki URL, directory. The rest will be obvious.

From the command line, use pywikibot's upload.py. Something like:

for image in $(ls); do ... upload.py -family:wikia -lang:mywiki -filename:$image -noverify; done
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You must use special:upload with MultiUpload, but you are limited to 10 at a time due to possible abuse.

Your link, MultiUploader can only be used by Autoconfirmed Users

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  • MultiUpload: Uploading ~1k images in groups of 10 and selecting it every time by hand is not an option. MultiUploader: I'm in autoconfirmed group, but the program is buggy - sometimes it does not upload a file even though it said it did, after some number of uploads (4?) it starts to popup message box with error every time next file is being uploaded. I wanted an automatic way of uploading = select folder, click upload button and let it do its work. Clicking thousand times every few seconds are pretty far from automatic...
    – monnef
    Aug 1, 2013 at 16:00

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