Since people are doing dump redesign right now, might I suggest that providing better integration / information on Commons-hosted images would actually be useful. As far as I know the current system has no way to distinguish between Commons images and missing images except by downloading the Commons dump files. That can be frustrating since the Commons dumps are larger (and hence more trouble to work with) than all but a handful of other wikis.
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Marcus Buck wiki@marcusbuck.org wrote:
Christian Reitwießner hett schreven:
Hi!
I'm trying to build dumps similar to those on static.wikipedia.org (I want to create dumps for an offline wikipedia on mobile linux devices). It seems that the dumps are in some way incomplete. Because it is a small wikipedia that I can understand, I first tried als.wikipedia.org. The problem is that some image description pages seem to be missing. For example:
On the page http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrenlos, the picture http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wuerenlos_AG.jpg is used. When I search the xml dump, I can find the reference, but not the image page itself, whereas other image pages do exist.
Can someone explain this issue to me?
Kind regards, Christian Reitwießner
The file and the image description page are stored on Wikimedia Commons, the central repository for images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wuerenlos_AG.jpg
Marcus Buck User:Slomox
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