"David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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On 01/05/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
David Gerard
wrote:
> If Commons is to be an effective service
project, it needs the
> infrastructure. A kludged-together usage detector that misses en:wp is
> not a substitute for something showing right there in the image page
> if the file is in use.
That doesn't have any bearing on the fact
that Commons is meant for the
wider population, where such detection is much tricker, as well as our
own projects, of course.
Yes, though the service project function is (a) what it was created
for at all (b) a solvable problem.
It would be a bit silly if Wikimedia had to start a second service
project because Commons had gone off on crack ;-)
I think the point Brion was making is that commons will ultimately be used
by 3rd party wikis without using a shared database, so the information about
which images they are using will not be available.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)