[Commons-l] Wikipedia Check-Usage for Commons media

Sun May 29 06:52:35 UTC 2005

Ohhhh, my !

I was dreaming of this ...
Good job Tim. Really thank you.

Anthere

--- Tim 'avatar' Bartel <wikipedia at computerkultur.org>
wrote:
> Hi wikipedians,
> 
> at the moment there is no (easy) possibility to
> check if media on
> commons is used throughout the wikipedia projects
> included into
> mediawiki.
> 
> Wikipedia Check-Usage [1] is a web based tool which
> can be used to
> check where commons media is used throughout the
> wikimedia universe.
> Also it is able to find "local" duplicates to
> commons media.
> 
> Check-Usage is strongly inspired by Arnomane's
> check-usage.sh [2] - a
> unix shell script doing mostly the same job. Because
> this script has
> several preconditions to run, like shell access to a
> unix/linux system
> and several programs installed on this machine, I
> though of writing a
> small web based interface. After short consideration
> I decided not to
> write only an interface calling Arnomane's script,
> but to re-code it
> completly. Check-Usage is written in PHP using
> libcurl.
> 
> So if you are interested where 'your' pictures are
> used - give it a try.
> 
> And commons sysops can use it before deleting files
> which are more than
> a few days old. In the past it was often problematic
> deleting/moving a
> file on commons, because doing this the included
> pictures in other
> wikimedia-projects were broken.
> 
> Bye, Tim.
> 
> PS: Regarding the traffic load: only the text of the
> chosen image-page
> gets transfered.
> 
> [1] http://www.juelich.de/avatar/check-usage/
> [2]
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arnomane/Image_usage
> 
> -- 
> "I worry about my child and the Internet all the
> time, even though she's
> too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry
> about. I worry that
> 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say
> 'Daddy, where were
> you when they took freedom of the press away from
> the Internet?'"
> --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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