Re: [Commons-l] Wikipedia Check-Usage for Commons media

Hi wikipedians, at the moment there is no (easy) possibility to check if media on commons is used throughout the wikipedia projects included into mediawiki. Wikipedia Check-Usage [1] is a web based tool which can be used to check where commons media is used throughout the wikimedia universe. Also it is able to find "local" duplicates to commons media. Check-Usage is strongly inspired by Arnomane's check-usage.sh [2] - a unix shell script doing mostly the same job. Because this script has several preconditions to run, like shell access to a unix/linux system and several programs installed on this machine, I though of writing a small web based interface. After short consideration I decided not to write only an interface calling Arnomane's script, but to re-code it completly. Check-Usage is written in PHP using libcurl. So if you are interested where 'your' pictures are used - give it a try. And commons sysops can use it before deleting files which are more than a few days old. In the past it was often problematic deleting/moving a file on commons, because doing this the included pictures in other wikimedia-projects were broken. Bye, Tim. PS: Regarding the traffic load: only the text of the chosen image-page gets transfered. [1] http://www.juelich.de/avatar/check-usage/ [2]

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