"Raimond Spekking"
<raimond.spekking(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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Mark Clements schrieb:
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> I don't know if anyone has any suggestions to deal with this kind of
> problem, or even if it has already been recognised as an issue. The
> non-technical answer is, of course, to copy the commons images to the
local
wiki, but that
kind of defeats the point of commons, doesn't it?
We have the CheckUsage tool on the toolserver and every admin should
check the usages _before_ deleting an image. If there are (more or less)
prominent usages, at least at non user/user talk pages, he shouldn't
delete the image or previous replace all usages with the duplicate image.
I know, it's a lot of work
Exemptions are copyvios.
Well, the original image was [[Image:Crystal_128_down.png]], which was
deleted [1] because it was a duplicate of
[[Image:Crystal_Clear_action_build.png]].
No one at
MediaWiki.org was informed of the deletion. A user spotted the
broken image and reported it about an hour and a half after it was deleted.
It took a further 3 hours for an admin to spot the note and fix 25 broken
pages (with the edit summary "yay, Commons sucks"). From the history, this
seems to have taken 20 minutes of their time, which is 20 minutes that could
have been spent much more constructively (I'm just glad it wasn't me!).
If there is a policy on Commons as described above, then it clearly isn't
being followed. If this is normal behaviour then the case is very strong
for making local copies of any images you want to use prominently...
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&…
Image:Crystal_128_down.png
