The output of MediaWiki's info action should include an entry with the number of global uses of a file (a page in the File namespace). This is related to T43366 ("Add local file usage count to MediaWiki's info action").
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T40450 Reimplement MediaWiki's info action (tracking) | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T43367 Add global file usage count to MediaWiki's info action |
Would you suggest to add this to the "properties" section in action=info or to create a new one?
This does not seem easy to me. We don't track global usage count currently, and counting on the fly does not perform well with InnoDB, so a new table would have to be added to the database to keep track of it. You'd have to deal with race conditions etc.
The task could be dumbed down to "show global usage count if it is less then X", and then a query with LIMIT could be used to ensure good performance, but I'm not sure how useful that would be.