Brianna Laugher wrote:
I tried it on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Alcib%C3%ADades.jpg. Note the weird character in the filename.
Image:Alcib�ades.jpg is now stored as http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commons_images/6ae2eda2d5.jpg
You should copy the above line into a file on your local machine, as
it is the only way to recover the file at a later date!
Delete file on commons The image below should be identical to the one in the upper right
corner. If not, copying was unsuccessful, and you should not delete the file on the commons!
Neither of the images would load so I couldn't check if this was true.
OK, let's try one without a tricky name: Image:Barrett.jpg
Last edited 78 days ago... bingo!
The delete link worked fine.
OK, interesting.
- 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?
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 ;)
Agreed. That way we wouldn't have to worry about where the backup of each image is stored...