Robert Rohde wrote:
> Since people are doing dump redesign right now, might I suggest that
> providing better integration / information on Commons-hosted images
> would actually be useful.  As far as I know the current system has no
> way to distinguish between Commons images and missing images except by
> downloading the Commons dump files.  That can be frustrating since the
> Commons dumps are larger (and hence more trouble to work with) than
> all but a handful of other wikis.
> 
> -Robert Rohde

You only need the image.sql dump from commons to determine if the image
exists there (it will also include other useful and not-so-useful data
like filetype, image size, metadata...).
http://download.wikimedia.org/commonswiki/20090510/


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