On 9/23/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
I think it *would* be very nice to have a robot which would scour the "fair use" categories for orphaned images, and mark them with a little remark which said, "If this image is not used in a week, it will be deleted. If you object to this, simply edit this image description -- if this robot is not the last editor of the image description, it will just be flagged for review." or something like that.
I've started writing that robot, but ran into a problem with the pywikipedia framework and [[Category:Fair use images]]. It seems that there are more than 200 images in the category indexed under "Upload" (due to a now-fixed bug in MediaWiki from last April and May), which causes the category enumerator in pywikipedia to loop endlessly. Once I've manually touched enough of the images which are indexed under "Upload" to drop that count below 200, the bug will clear and I'll be able to use the robot to enumerate the category and do the orphan check on a periodic basis.
If you want to help, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fair_use_images&from=... and make null edits on the images listed therein. This will cause them to be reindexed properly and fix the indexing problem with the Category. There's a lot of them.
Kelly