Author: crochet.david
Description:
This special page list all need image, but, in most case, the image are in Wikimedia Commons, so the special page indicate bad information (for the moment i presum).
Maybe that indication in the top page of the special page to say that would be better for the moment.
Version: 1.14.x
Severity: normal
URL: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:WantedFiles
Ew :(
The only solution I'd see would be to run each of the "bad" titles through the repo stack to see if they match any foreign repos, but it wouldn't be very efficient, imo.
The imagelinks table shouldn't store properties of the target; we organize them the way they are so they don't have to change. :)
But indeed I'm not too sure what's a better way to do it, especially in general (eg, foreign repo may be by API, so no database we can easily query). :P
Perhaps a separate table of 'images we've touched at some point which we know exist offsite'... bleh.
(In reply to comment #5)
The imagelinks table shouldn't store properties of the target; we organize them
the way they are so they don't have to change. :)But indeed I'm not too sure what's a better way to do it, especially in general
(eg, foreign repo may be by API, so no database we can easily query). :PPerhaps a separate table of 'images we've touched at some point which we know
exist offsite'... bleh.
I know ForeignApiRepo caches this stuff really heavy (every single external HTTP request is cached), but it shouldn't need to be that way, not to mention it doesn't help those who have CACHE_NONE set...
An extra table seems icky though, I agree there...