Lennart, geni,
This bot is already there and also appears to have full community support,
at least as long as removing images is the topic (mainly copyvio deletions).
AFAIK there is no full time bot process for image replacement (superseded,
duplicate, e.a.), although that sounds trivial.
Links:
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CommonsDelinker (bot page)
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions/CommonsDelinker
(request for permission)
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Orgullomoore (bot operator)
Sadly, though, the bot operator got overtaken by real life and has been idle
for over a month. I guess any experienced bot operator willing to take a
sh*tload of crap whenever the bot does not do a good job can contact
Orgullomoore and see if he can maybe take over the project.
Cheers!
Siebrand
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Van: commons-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] Namens geni
Verzonden: zondag 12 november 2006 23:01
Aan: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] Deleting images
On 11/12/06, Lennert Böhm <lennert.boehm(a)gmx.de> wrote:
While we are on the topic of too much work and not
enough people to do it:
Tonight I felt particularly motivated and decided to make myself
useful deleting superseded images. Trusting the people who had posted
those images there I made my way through the first dozen or so of the
list, when I suddenly decided it might be a good idea, just to be on
the safe side, to perform a check-usage on those images. Turns out
some of those images weren't only used on one or two Wikipedias, but
more than a dozen. So I ended up undeleting most of the images,
because I really got better things to do than first check all those
images if they're still in use somewhere, and then making I don't know
how many edits in as many Wikipedias changing the links.
So I think if we ever won't to work off the backlog we have
accumulated we either "train" the normal users to fix the links when
they add the images there or we find some possibility to do it
automatically using bots running parallely on all WPs or something.
I don't know if that's possible to implement, but I for myself have
better things to do than do all of this by hand.
Lennert B
You need orphanbot or a version of it.
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geni
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