https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46358
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--- Comment #11 from Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> ---
To clarify, this should be classified as a major regression in terms of
maintenance from the community.
Even to the point where I'm fairly confident that the would-be-required
maintenance will not happen as it is an unreasonably large amount of work, and
as such will leave a trail of broken images behind in an ever growing fashion.
Right now we have CommonsDelinker which watches deletions by Commons admins
(and iterates through all local usage pages and attempts to find the relevant
wikitext and removes it). It also has a feature to do a global replace of one
file for another.
If projects start to move information like file names for logos of companies or
the primary portraits of people etc. into Wikidata, then this will no longer
work. As a result, any rename or deletion that happens at Commons will result
in chaos. CommonsDelinker is sufficiently integrated that Commons admins
generally don't have a concept of updating links or fear of breakage.
I have no idea what the proper implementation would be, but, as a community
member, I strongly urge wikidata is not to be used for image information in any
major way until this is resolved. The traditional "I don't care how" applies.
It's an unfair and messy environment, but this burden should not be placed on
the community.
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