[Commons-l] some statistics

[Magnus Manske]

Brianna Laugher schrieb:
> I tried it on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Alcib%C3%ADades.jpg.
> Note the weird character in the filename.
>   
The reason for this not working /may/ be that there's a text, but no 
image to copy ;-)

Anyway, that error is now caught and shown.
>
>> * Check the image text for "delete me" templates; list of templates has
>> to be expanded, please tell me which to use
>>     
>
> which ones do you have so far?
>   
You can see the current list by clicking on "source of this script" 
(even if you don't speak code;-)
>   
>> The deleting admin *has* to copy the new image url line, otherwise the
>> image can never be found again! That way, the image is stored away from
>> public eyes but still restorable through the deleting admin.
>>     
>
> I think instead it should make an edit to the image page saying
> "BACK-UP COPY AT (url)". Because the image is about to be deleted
> anyway. If time proves the image should be undeleted, you can just
> undelete the image page, recover the URL and go from there. That seems
> much easier than storing the URL on my local machine for example. It
> would also save one manual step ;)
>   
I added a button which will open the edit page and append that message 
(also fill in the summary). You'll have to click it (and "Save") 
manually, though...

> I didn't get one that was actually used, though, so I'm not sure what
> the check-usage part of the interface will look like.
>   
One line for each wikimedia project that uses the image; in this line, 
project name, how many articles, talk pages, project pages, etc. use it
For details (which pages actually use the image), click on "details" ;-)
> Do TPTB approve of this use of the toolserver? If commons admins get
> into it, it seems like it could be reasonably intensive...
>   
I posted it on toolserver-l, and so far, noone complained. Tim Starling 
made a good suggestion; I'll talk to him about this.

At some point, I'll have to really delete these images, no matter the 
disk space available. I'd assume it's safe to /really/ delete them if 
they were not resurrected within three month or so.

Magnus