[Toolserver-l] A special request

[Platonides]

Daniel Kinzler 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

It is Bug 5763, filled a year ago. However, as we will use FileStore, no 
need to rewrite it before, as well we don't need to create multiple 
accounts, we will have SUL... Oh, well, at least if Brion doesn't get a 
girlfriend.