[Foundation-l] Commons request for a delinker tool running in every wiki

[James Hare]

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On 9/23/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Super.
>
> In this summer "omg red link!!" case happened on the Foundation wiki
> again about Commons logo. It is wonderful we are deliver from the need
> of manual check and spend the time for more creative works. I fully
> support this proposal of Arnomane.
>
> One question: how does it works on the closed (private) wiki? Or
> partly access restricted one(s), z.B. wikimania2005? (You need
> registration to give a look to Internal namespace, or to pages not
> listed on the whitelist)
>
> Currently those wikis are not covered? Just curious.
>
> On 9/23/06, Daniel Arnold <arnomane at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 23. September 2006 00:13 schrieb Erik Moeller:
>
> > Given the fact that ensuring of free content policies is one of the *key
> > missions* of the Wikimedia Foundation and CommonsDelinker is something
> that
> > clearly adresses this topic (via a much more efficient copyvio deletion
> with
> > less negative side effects for local wikis at the same time) I think it
> is
> > appropriate calling for a support note.
> >
> > And lets not forget: This tool will touch Foundation affairs too: like
> Meta
> > wiki, Wikimania wikis, Foundation wiki, although the probability that
> this
> > tool will need to remove something there is much lower than in other
> wikis
> > but not zero.
> >
> > By the way: The Foundation wikis need a CommonsTicker. Why? Well you all
> > remember some troubles with random people overwriting logos and such. We
> > Commons admins simply don't have the time watching over every file
> alone.
> > CommonsTicker would enable you being alerted quickly on overwrite,
> suggested
> > deletion and so forth of any logo, image, media file that is important
> to the
> > Foundation directly. You will be surprised how much changes in Commons
> will
> > affect Foundation wikis directly.  Many other Wikimedia wikis can
> confirm
> > this because they got used to CommonsTicker.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be cool to be informed in advance that something needs your
> > attention? It would save us all a lot of frustration:
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker
> >
> > Cheers, Arnomane
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