It would leave a paper trail that editors could use to find the commons image, and hopefully its original source, to go get it from for other projects.
Hmm. Maybe not. Not sure there's enough info there for that. It's late, solve in morning. -george On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Huib Laurens <sterke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of broken > links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we want? > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < > martijnhoeks...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, "George Herbert" <george.herb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens <sterke...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on > > > > Commons... > > > > >> No coding needed at all. > > > > > > > > > This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore > > the > > > > > deleted file. > > > > > > > > > > > > Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration. > > > > > > > > > > ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki. > That > > > does not solve the "now used on other wikis" problem, however, for > those > > > other wikis. > > > > > > That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however... > > > > > > > Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any > projects > > > > > > > > -- > > > -george william herbert > > > george.herb...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Huib Laurens > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
