[Foundation-l] Remove EDP images bot

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  shi zhao wrote:
>  > According to resolution: Licensing policy(
>  > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy ), I'm
>  > development an bot, remove EDP images in non-article namespaces. Code see
>  > http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Python:Deledpimage.py
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>  > Hope can help licensing policy :)
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>  It may not be that easy.  A lot of the way images are used, especially
>  in templates, aren't amenable to just removing them outright.  We've had
>  a bot on the English Wikipedia that lists all non-articlespace pages
>  containing non-free images (and which ones).  I think we need to get
>  more active with that while still manually removing them.
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>  - --
>  Ben "Cyde Weys" McIlwain    ( http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/ )
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In fact it is waaay more difficult. See
<http://fisheye.ts.wikimedia.org/browse/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/commonsdelinker/delinker.py?r=HEAD>,
the function replace_image. It should also be available in
wikipedia.Page.replaceImage, but I have heard rumours that that one is
quite broken.

Bryan