"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140705011309u4cea8179h55cc33a20f0bdfc6@mail.gmail.com...
On 01/05/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org
wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
If Commons is to be an effective service project, it needs the infrastructure. A kludged-together usage detector that misses en:wp is not a substitute for something showing right there in the image page if the file is in use.
That doesn't have any bearing on the fact that Commons is meant for the wider population, where such detection is much tricker, as well as our own projects, of course.
Yes, though the service project function is (a) what it was created for at all (b) a solvable problem.
It would be a bit silly if Wikimedia had to start a second service project because Commons had gone off on crack ;-)
I think the point Brion was making is that commons will ultimately be used by 3rd party wikis without using a shared database, so the information about which images they are using will not be available.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)