On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Huib Laurens <sterke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The bot alters a page and alerts people about it on the watchlist. By just > deleting the file it can take weeks before somebody even notice that there > is something wrong. > How about the best of both worlds, the bot makes a null edit to alert people who have the article watchlisted, and the link stays broken to alert everybody else. > Besides that we have maybe 10 project that allow fair-use.... Why do we > need to break links at 600+ wiki's for 10 wiki's with a different policy? > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Martijn Hoekstra < > martijnhoeks...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > On Aug 5, 2013 10:10 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? > > > > > > > Why not? It immediately alerts whoever looks at it that there is > something > > wrong with the image (which there is). Sure, it doesn't look pretty, but > > you can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we would want to fork > > development and presentation on our projects, but that's a whole > different > > discussion. > > > > > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
