[Toolserver-l] A special request

[Sean Whitton]

> MD5-sums for all uploaded files would be sooo nice...

Couldn't a bot generate these and store it on the toolserver?

Sean

On 17/04/07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel at brightbyte.de> wrote:
> Platonides wrote:
> > Robert Leverington wrote:
> >> One solution suggested would be to do this using the toolserver, the
> >> only trouble is that to do so would require user authentication -
> >> which is not permitted by the rules.
>
> No, the trouble is that we don't have the deleted images on the toolserver. In
> fact, we don't have any images. Or article text, for that matter. We only
> replicate meta-data.
>
> But checking if an image was deleted, and for what reason, doesn't require admin
> privileges. Just look at Special:Log. You need to know the images name, of
> course, but you would need to know that anyway. *That* seems to real trouble to
> me. MD5-sums for all uploaded files would be sooo nice...
>
> -- Daniel
>
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