On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is a triple-crosspost. I suggest you reply to wikitech-l only.
A mistake I made caused the loss of 496 full-resolution images from Wikimedia servers.
I have recovered as many images as I can, drawing on the following sources:
- Squid cache (pmtpa, knams and yaseo)
- May 8 backup of some wikis on storage1
- Duplicates with the same signature, found on the same or other wikis
That brought the number lost down from about 3000 to the current 496. For the remaining files, I made a copy of their thumbnail directories:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/lost-image-thumb-backup/
A list of missing images can be found here:
http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/missing-images-2008-09
If anyone has any ideas about where to find more backup files, I'd be willing to hear them. Otherwise, the community will just have to reupload as many as possible.
At least one of them ( Clan_member_crest_badge_-_Clan_MacTavish.svg ) was reuploaded in a coincidence :-)
How about a script adding a message to the talk page of the respective uploader?
Magnus