At 03:48 PM 6/15/02 -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
We might want to discuss further limiting just who can
use this utility
because this is beginning to be a maintenance issue for the syops and the
presence of these bogus user accounts is also over-reporting the number of
true (as in contributing) users we have .
In addition to a special "uploads allowed" flag like this, I am really
looking forward to getting some better utilities built into Wikipedia for
housekeeping use. A "what articles link to this image?" link would be an
ideal example, in this particular case; I wouldn't be surprised if more
than half of the stuff in the uploads directory is junk that isn't being
used anywhere.
A way to search for externally-linked images in articles would be nice,
too; I think that in general all images in Wikipedia should be a part of
the database itself, so that the whole encyclopedia can be easily packaged
and distributed.
And, while I'm at it, how about some way to automatically locate "talk"
pages belonging to redirects or are otherwise orphaned (these often get
left behind when articles are moved or deleted), pages which should be
considered orphans because they're only linked to by redirects and/or
"talk" pages, etc.? I like going on cleaning binges when I'm not feeling
creative enough to actually write or edit articles, and a list of stuff
like that would be great to work from.
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