[Commons-l] some statistics

Mon Jun 12 09:18:18 UTC 2006

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> I tried it on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Alcib%C3%ADades.jpg.
> Note the weird character in the filename.
> 
>> Image:Alcib�ades.jpg is now stored as
>> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commons_images/6ae2eda2d5.jpg
>>
>> You should copy the above line into a file on your local machine, as
> it is the only way to recover the file at a later date!
>> Delete file on commons
>> The image below should be identical to the one in the upper right
> corner. If not, copying was unsuccessful, and you should not delete
> the file on the commons!
> 
> Neither of the images would load so I couldn't check if this was true.
> 
> OK, let's try one without a tricky name: Image:Barrett.jpg
> 
> Last edited 78 days ago... bingo!
> 
> The delete link worked fine.
> 
> OK, interesting.
> 
>> * Check the image text for "delete me" templates; list of templates has
>> to be expanded, please tell me which to use
> 
> which ones do you have so far?
> 
>> The deleting admin *has* to copy the new image url line, otherwise the
>> image can never be found again! That way, the image is stored away from
>> public eyes but still restorable through the deleting admin.
> 
> I think instead it should make an edit to the image page saying
> "BACK-UP COPY AT (url)". Because the image is about to be deleted
> anyway. If time proves the image should be undeleted, you can just
> undelete the image page, recover the URL and go from there. That seems
> much easier than storing the URL on my local machine for example. It
> would also save one manual step ;)
> 

Agreed. That way we wouldn't have to worry about where the backup of
each image is stored...

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