[Commons-l] Fwd: Commons request for input: policy on automaticimage replacement

[Florian Straub]

"Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote on Monday, February 19, 
2007 3:52 PM:


> On 20/02/07, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> so.. suppose I delete a png sicne there's a superior svg (manually
>> checked) the bot currently delinsk the png from local projects
>> is there a way to tell the bot to relink with the svg?
>> otherwise projects will lose the png unaware that there's a svg replacing 
>> it
>
> At the moment that's what will happen. But we can work with
> Orgullomoore, the bot owner, to fix this up. For example, if you put
> 'no-orgullobot' in the deletion reason, it won't delink. So when we
> delete such PNGs, we could just put 'no-orgullobot', and then manually
> give it a replacement instruction. Or we could invent something new
> like 'orgullobot-replace:newimage.jpg' . I don't think that will be a
> big problem.

Wasn't Hard_Disk working on a bot that does replace images?

Regards,

Flo