Roland Unger, 03/11/2012 21:24:
Surely, it's necessary to check the files before (but this was not done by the bot). Now it makes a huge effort to check the images twice -- at Wikivoyage and at Commons. The original place as noted by the bot will vanish after some days. No community member has the chance the check the original file to get the category, for instance. And we will have maybe about 40.000 ownerless objects at Commons.
Where does this number come from? We don't even have lists of images to check/import, as I noted on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wikitravel_Shared_transfer_t...
(which by the way means that the work has not even started, except a few heroic users). My initial list found 20 thousands needed files, of which about 10 % is already identified as being on/from Commons <
Nemo
We have two repositories, both with 30.000 files. I reduced the number by a third to take in account that some files are coming from Commons. For instance, I by myself uploaded more than 2,600 files wikivoyage/shared. The estimate of 20,000 files schould be a realistic one.
Roland