I said I would write you a tool, just give me a few days.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Brenton Horne <brentonhorn...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> About a month ago I transferred from a Wikia wiki (
> health-and-medicine.wikia.com) to a local wiki and much of what I did was
> I went to Special:Export on Wikia, entered major categories and exported
> all pages belonging to these categories and then went to Special:Import on
> my local wiki to import the XML files the Wikia export had generated (XML
> dumps weren't a viable option as Special:Import couldn't handle the massive
> file generated from the dumps). This Wikia wiki has several hundred
> pictures that I still need to upload to my local wiki and I was wondering
> if there was a Pywiki script that could do this job for me, or at least do
> it for files that are linked in the pages I have so far imported (i.e.,
> files mentioned in broken file links). I have user_config.py already setup
> for working with these two wikis (i.e., content:
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
> family = 'local'
> mylang = 'en'
> usernames['hmwiki']['hmwiki'] = u'MyFirstBot'
> usernames['local']['en'] = u'MyFirstBot'
>
> where hmwiki has been defined via generate_family_file.py) if you're
> wondering.
>
> I am a noob when it comes to python and Pywikibot so if you have an answer
> I'd appreciate it if you could boil it down into simple lines of code to
> run in the command prompt (I'm on 64 bit Windows 7 SP1).
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Brenton
>
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