Last modified: 2014-02-19 01:42:49 UTC
Written by Sébastien Santoro (Dereckson) and extracted from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Build_an_interwiki_notifications_framework_and_implement_it_for_InstantCommons: "In January 2010, we introduced a setting to ease the possibility to reuse the Wikimedia Commons content on other MediaWiki installations. This feature is called “InstantCommons”. The Wikimedia Commons community performs a continuous maintenance on wiki files, renaming and deleting media. We currently have tools to detect if the media are used on Wikimedia projects, and tools to replace automatically the names following a rename operation. It would be interesting to allow wikis (and 3rd party software) to notify Wikimedia Commons they use pictures through a notification API. It would also be interesting if these wikis can subscribe to notifications, so we can notify them back we’ve made a destructive operation (e.g. rename or delete a media file currently in use on their website), so they can automatically or manually take appropriate measures. This project is to develop an interwiki notifications framework, ideally also open to 3rd party sites, and to use it to implement it to enhance the InstantCommons feature."
Btw, why is renames a destructive op? We have file redirects or am I missing something.
Regarding "in use" API, also see bug 29640
(In reply to comment #1) > Btw, why is renames a destructive op? We have file redirects or am I missing > something. ForeignApiFile/Repo has always had problems with following redirects properly :\
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Btw, why is renames a destructive op? We have file redirects or am I missing > > something. > > ForeignApiFile/Repo has always had problems with following redirects properly > :\ And furthermore, the Wikimedia Commons community doesn't let redirects for typos and other stuff.
Is there an interest in proposing this project for Outreach Program for Women? If so, and if there at least one mentor for it. please move it to the "Featured projects" section. This way it will be automatically transcluded in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7 Thank you!
Hi, this project is still listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Build_an_interwiki_notifications_framework_and_implement_it_for_InstantCommons Should this project be still listed in that page? If not, please remove it. If it still makes sense, then it could be moved to the "Featured projects" section if it has community support and mentors.
(In reply to comment #6) > Hi, this project is still listed at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/ > Possible_projects#Build_an_interwiki_notifications_framework_and_implement_it > _for_InstantCommons > > Should this project be still listed in that page? If not, please remove it. > If > it still makes sense, then it could be moved to the "Featured projects" > section > if it has community support and mentors. It still makes sense, and would be a good project. Whether it has mentors is a separate question - although I am interested in this, I personally do not have the time to mentor anything in the near future.
Consider that this is already implemented in a "pull" sense in Extension:CommonsMetadata. We have file usage, and a bunch of other awesome image metadata, returned from the API that you could previously only get from the file page. This project may not take very long anymore.
