Commons talk:Tracking external file usage
Previous discussion[Bearbeiten]
Early discussion about this activity was at Commons:Village pump/Proposals/Archive/2022/06#File usage on openstreetmap.org, The following page uses this file and Commons:Bots/Requests/Usage Bot. --bjh21 (Diskussion) 23:01, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Proposed target: OpenStreetMap Wiki[Bearbeiten]
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I'd like to propose tracking files used on the OpenStreetMap Wiki. The OpenStreetMap Wiki is used for documenting the workings of OpenStreetMap, and specifically for describing the meanings of keys in the OpenStreetMap database. It uses a lot of files from Commons (just under 30,000 at the moment), mainly as examples of features that it describes. This use is educational, as defined by COM:EDUSE, so it would be useful to track it on Commons to assist with deletion decisions. We currently track files used in the OpenStreetMap database itself at Commons:Files used on OpenStreetMap, but not those used on the wiki. At a technical level, I would just add the OpenStreetMap Wiki to the targets tracked by Usage Bot, and have it construct galleries under Commons:Files used on the OpenStreetMap Wiki. I've put a sample gallery with a random thousand files at User:Bjh21/Usage demo. If this proposal is accepted there would initially be 30 such galleries. I will also mention this proposal at Commons:Village pump/Proposals and osmwiki:Talk:Wiki. --bjh21 (Diskussion) 14:43, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
It's a week since the last comment, and everyone seems to be in favour, so I've set up Commons:Files used on the OpenStreetMap Wiki and the bot is currently running to populate it. Thank you all for your input! --bjh21 (Diskussion) 13:28, 26 August 2022 (UTC) |
Proposed targets: Wikimedia chapter wikis[Bearbeiten]
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Several Wikimedia chapters have their own MediaWiki wikis. Most of these are hosted on Wikimedia infrastructure, so they appear in Special:GlobalUsage. There are a few, though, that are hosted elsewhere and that don't appear in GlobalUsage. Most of these could be easily supported by Usage Bot. I propose to add tracking of file usage on these wikis. The targets I propose covering initially are: I've omitted Wikimedia Australia because the bot's API requests to it time out. I've omitted Wikimedia Italia because it doesn't allow anonymous API access. I've omitted Wikimedia South Africa because it's using a version of MediaWiki too old for the current version of Pywikibot. Most of these wikis don't have their own names apart from the name of their chapter. This is why the names of the galleries are "by" rather than "on". Please tell me if this is incorrect. They also all have closed registration, so I haven't been able to mention this on the target wikis. Since I'm just using public APIs to bring them closer to parity with Wikimedia-hosted wikis, I don't think this is a serious problem. As with the last one, I'll post a link to this proposal on Commons:Village pump/Proposals. --bjh21 (Diskussion) 15:15, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Since there have been no objections and I'm going to be travelling for the next two days, I've deployed the code to create galleries for the chapter wikis. It'll first run as part of the weekly cron job on Monday. Thank you all for your input! --bjh21 (Diskussion) 16:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC) |
Proposed target: RegiowikiAT[Bearbeiten]
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Karl Gruber has suggested on my talk page that we should track file usage on RegiowikiAT. It appears to be run by Wikimedia Österreich, so it might fall within the proposal above, but it also uses over 11,000 Commons files, more than all the chapter wikis above combined. Would there be any objection to my having the bot create galleries under Commons:Files used on RegiowikiAT for Commons files used there? --bjh21 (Diskussion) 00:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
That's pretty convincing. I've updated the bot's code to support RegiowikiAT and it will populate the galleries tonight. Thank you all for you input! --bjh21 (Diskussion) 10:51, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
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Proposed target: AARoads Wiki[Bearbeiten]
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Rschen7754 has suggested on my user talk page that Usage Bot should track file usage on the AARoads Wiki. It's a free-content educational project, so I think its uses of files are likely to be of interest to those judging whether a file is educationally useful. The AARoads wiki is using over 69,000 files from Commons, so this would require 70 galleries under Commons:Files used on the AARoads Wiki. The bot would update these galleries weekly, not least because it currently takes nine hours to get the entire list of used files. Would there be any objection to my having the bot start tracking usage on this wiki? As usual, I'll post a link to this proposal on Commons:Village pump/Proposals. --bjh21 (Diskussion) 21:24, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
Thank you all! I've updated the bot's code to support the AARoads Wiki, so if everything works it should create a load of galleries under Commons:Files used on the AARoads Wiki some time on Monday. --bjh21 (Diskussion) 21:28, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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Proposed targets: Wikimedia movement affiliates (and specifically Deoband Community Wikimedia)[Bearbeiten]
TheAafi (DCW) has suggested User talk:Bjh21#Files used on DCW website that Usage Bot should track file usage on the Web site of Deoband Community Wikimedia (DCW). DCW is a Wikimedia user group which is a different kind of Wikimedia movement affiliate from the chapters I asked about above. Like chapters, some user groups have wikis on Wikimedia infrastructure that are covered by Special:GlobalUsage. Examples include wmbr: and wmge:. But other user groups, like DCW, have wikis that aren't covered by Special:GlobalUsage and Usage Bot could usefully track their file usage. Would there be any objection to my having Usage Bot track file usage on MediaWiki wikis run by all kinds of Wikimedia movement affiliate, including user groups like DCW? --bjh21 (Diskussion) 17:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Pro As far as I'm concerned, any official Wikipedia group's content is within scope, regardless of the specifics of their charter and organization structure. The Squirrel Conspiracy (Diskussion) 21:48, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Pro not as someone associated with DCW as a volunteer and a Program Lead (TheAafi (DCW)), but as TSC says above that regardless of charters and structures, every Wikimedia movement affiliate's content is within scope. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 17:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
- Given that DCW is a recognized affiliate, I have no concerns as long as DCW maintains its status. 511KeV (Diskussion) 16:07, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks all for your opinions. Commons:Files used by Deoband Community Wikimedia now exists and will be maintained by the Usage Bot. I'll see what other user group wikis I can find. --bjh21 (Diskussion) 21:17, 18 March 2024 (UTC)