Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:40:46 -0400
From: "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Commons deletion issue
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On 4/30/07, Daniel Kinzler
<daniel(a)brightbyte.de> wrote:
Note that commons admins often rely on my
CheckUsage tool to check where an
image is used. Due to the way to database is fed from the parser, this might
miss some uses, though. Specifically, it may miss any ''conditional'' use
of an
image, i.e. used directly or indirectly inside a {{#if}} or {{#switch}} clause.
I don't think this is accurate. If an image is actually *displayed* on
a page it should show up, although only on the page which the image is
being displayed on. If some use of parserfunctions is causing an image
to not currently be displayed it will not show up.
What doesn't show up are images pulled in via javascript or css. There
is no way we can expect the mediawiki software or commons admins to be
aware of these cases automatically. Even local images used from CSS do
not show up in file links.
For this latter case the only thing we can do is advise people who
include images via css to note this fact on the image page, and ask
that the image page be protected. I do this for
enwiki every once in a
while.
for js/css included images (as suggested by pfctdayelise )
p.s. I'm very certain we all get mad at commons for deleting stuff
some of the time. Just look at wikinews <->commons relations from
about two years ago. However they are getting significantly better.
-bawolff