https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842
--- Comment #25 from ChrisiPK <[email protected]> 2009-03-19 20:00:26 UTC --- (In reply to comment #22) > Summary of problem: Third-party CheckUsage tool has limited functionality, and > doesn't currently handle a lot of things well including image redirects. > Not only that, I also mentioned redirects giving more opportunities for vandal attacks. How should we take care of those? Also think of several consecutive renames, which give a pretty long chain of image redirects. How far will the software follow those? And are there ways to find redirects which are breaking because the software won't follow the complete chain? > Chris's suggested solution: Break all existing links and tell people they just > can't rely on using anything from Commons. > This was the way we always did it. I'm not saying it's great, but I can't see why this suddenly is such a big issue. I also gave a hint how I think this could by fixed (display deletion log on non-existing image pages), what about that? > My suggested solution: Fix or replace third-party CheckUsage tool so it meets > its own requirements of checking image usage. > If that can be done, great! If we can get MediaWiki to do this job, even better! However, some sort of CheckUsage is vital for the operation of Commons, so I don't think a policy change will be possible before we have a tool that actually works. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
