On 14/06/06, Essjay essjaywiki@gmail.com wrote:
Could someone catch me up on exactly where we are with this? I've been gone since Saturday (my last post here was the last thing I did) and there has obviously been great progress while I was away. Could someone send me a summary of exactly where we are (especially, where and how to use Magnus' tool)?
This is how I would use them: "Hmm, I feel like deleting masses of files, I'll go to Category:Unknown and find a suitable subcategory..." e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_unknown_source_as_of_... (best to work with a medium-sized category, < 200 items)
so then I would hook that category name up to bad_old_ones to get a URL like http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/bad_old_ones.php?category=Images%20with%20... (just copy and paste the cat name, it will convert the spaces to "%20") (at some stage we would hook this into the interface)
then this page gives us a lovely overview, so we can see the image itself, its summary, its usage, and quick links to delete or safe delete.
So the beauty of this, is that you can pick out "easy" cases to delete, i.e. images that aren't being used. (Unfortunately you still need to check en.wp by hand, can't wait until that's fixed.) You can also pick "obvious" copyvios (bandpromo shots, logos, etc) and it's also reasonably easy to see where the uploader has themselves tagged the image NLD (by choosing "License unknown" in the license selector at Special:Upload).
Just give the safe_delete a try, it's pretty straightforward I reckon. I also wouldn't use it for most of these cases, but if you're squeamish, go ahead. :)
BTW to Magnus: having a link directly to the en.wp page would be really handy (we have it as one of our 'extra tabs' now).
Brianna