Different wikis often have different metadata formatting conventions
because it's just wikitext. How do the tracking categories know where to
find the information?
Deryck
On 7 Oct 2014 00:03, "Gergo Tisza" <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all other wikis), files
which
do not have machine-parseable author, source, license or description
will be automatically added to tracking categories (one category for each).
The name of the categories will be determined by the following messages:
>
> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-license
> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-description
> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-author
> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-source
>
> Translatewiki link:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-com…
>
> If you would rather not have these tracking categories on your wiki, you
can
achieve that by setting the content of the local message to "-" (a
single dash character).
>
> Links to the local message pages are available from
[[Special:TrackingCategories]].
>
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