On dim, 2002-05-19 at 12:50, Bryan Derksen wrote: Hmm... That would be pretty easy, I think. Just create a separate directory (with web access disallowed), move 'deleted' files over it; maybe have a cron job clear it out every now and then. This would be easier if we add a table to list external links just like we currently have for internal links to existing and nonexisting articles. When saving an article, we could list all the web links, images, and perhaps inter-wiki links, dump them to this table; then, it's a simple database query to check against the URL and grab any article -- on _this_ wiki -- that links to a given file. (If there's any reason not to do it this way, let's discuss further on wikitech-l; however it's implemented, it's a needed feature.) This will not solve the problem of tracking files that are used on _other_ wikipedia sites; a lot of images are shared between articles on the different languages 'pedias, and a number of specifically non-English files (labelled maps and diagrams, for instance) are hosted on the English or Meta 'pedias because the others haven't been converted yet... though theoretically this could be tracked in the future by checking the link tables for each language's database. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)