[Foundation-l] Towards actual clean-up...

[Milos Rancic]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Guillaume Paumier
<gpaumier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Le dimanche 9 mai 2010 17:33:42, David Goodman a écrit :
>>  A secondary purpose of Commons in for material to be used
>> elsewhere--have we any way for checking that?   I'd even say that the
>> true success of Commons is when the material there is used elsewhere,
>> not just in Wikimedia projects..
>
> Not yet, but it is definitely a feature we're considering. There was a
> discussion about a "pinging" system during the Multimedia meeting in Paris
> last October, but we have more critical issues to address first.

Any contemporary MediaWiki installation can use Commons as an external
repository. I am using Commons as an external repository whenever I
install MediaWiki. (Or I am missing some point?)