[Foundation-l] Massive image loss

[John at Darkstar]

Perhaps also add which pages the image was used at on the image list?
That way you increase the chance of people noticing images they have
uploaded. Also, could there be a split on which projects the images was
used at?
John

Magnus Manske skrev:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> This is a triple-crosspost. I suggest you reply to wikitech-l only.
>>
>> A mistake I made caused the loss of 496 full-resolution images from
>> Wikimedia servers.
>>
>> I have recovered as many images as I can, drawing on the following sources:
>>
>> * Squid cache (pmtpa, knams and yaseo)
>> * May 8 backup of some wikis on storage1
>> * Duplicates with the same signature, found on the same or other wikis
>>
>> That brought the number lost down from about 3000 to the current 496. For
>> the remaining files, I made a copy of their thumbnail directories:
>>
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/lost-image-thumb-backup/
>>
>> A list of missing images can be found here:
>>
>> http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/missing-images-2008-09
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas about where to find more backup files, I'd be
>> willing to hear them. Otherwise, the community will just have to reupload
>> as many as possible.
> 
> At least one of them ( Clan_member_crest_badge_-_Clan_MacTavish.svg )
> was reuploaded in a coincidence :-)
> 
> How about a script adding a message to the talk page of the respective uploader?
> 
> Magnus
> 
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