On 01/05/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> 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.
I'm in 100% agreement with this one, and have been thinking on
solutions to provide that information right there in the page. A brief
discussion with Brion confirmed the need for a centralised Commons
image link table of some sort, which can be updated by all client
wikis upon image use.
The trickier issues, as I see them, are detecting image links to
shared images (MediaWiki treats them the same, more or less), and
producing a list of additions and deletions in a timely fashion.
Fortunately, the LinksUpdate code contains quite a bit of this logic
which might well be adaptable.
Rob Church