Author: dodgy
Description:
There's the unused images special page. Well sometimes images are linked to from articles, etc. It would
be nice if MediaWiki could add a simple search in there to crossreference unused images with images
thare are both unused and not linked anywhere.
Obviously links from category pages would be excluded because well they shouldn't count.
This should be just some easy MySQL cross-search.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
robchur wrote:
I'm not sure that this is quite the intended purpose of the page; an image is
"used" if it appears on some page.
dodgy wrote:
Basically a cross search for images that both:
That simple.
cnit wrote:
One of my wiki has pages that use a lot of image links like this one [[:Image:file.jpg]]
Wiki users were really surprised to find the following message on Image:file.jpg page:
"There are no pages that link to this file"
when there might be many pages actually likning to it.
On Special:Unusedimages there's at least a warning:
"Please note that other web sites may link to a file with a direct URL,
and so may still be listed here despite being in active use."
On the image page you have to figure out to use "What links here" - some
users might forget about that and it's a one more click. That's very unhandy
to such wikies. Also, Image: page becomes less informative.
Images are linked with url links [[:Image:file.jpg]] because there's
many of them in the text sometimes. Also, the Image page has detailed
description of the image.
I've made a hack, which allows to optionally include such links in
statistics on Image: page. It's not too big and doesn't affect
existing installations. I hope it can be reviewed and integraded into
SVN, possibly with required fixes.
cnit wrote:
This patch allows to see usage of image pagelinks in statistics on Image: page
set
$wgImagePageLinks=true;
in LocalSettings.php
to enable it.
attachment ImagePage.php.patch ignored as obsolete
cnit wrote:
This patch allows to see usage of image pagelinks in statistics on Image: page
set
$wgImagePageLinks=true;
in LocalSettings.php
to enable it.
attachment ImagePage.php.patch ignored as obsolete
sumanah wrote:
Dmitriy, thank you for writing this patch, and sorry that it's taken so long to reply! Could you please check to see whether the current version of MediaWiki (in Subversion trunk) still has this problem, and whether your patch still cleanly applies to trunk? Thanks!
sumanah wrote:
Dmitriy, I'm sorry to say that your patch doesn't cleanly apply to MediaWiki's codebase anymore. I'm marking it obsolete and removing the patch & need-review keywords. If the problem is still happening in the current version of MediaWiki, would you be interested in revising your patch? Thanks!
sumanah wrote:
Comment on attachment 5445
This patch allows to see usage of image pagelinks in statistics on Image: page
Per automated testing
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-November/056340.html patch
no longer applies to MediaWiki trunk in Subversion. I'm sorry for the delay in review.