Last modified: 2005-06-14 15:56:06 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=966936&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2004-06-05 06:30 See <a href="http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki_1.3_comments_and_bug_reports&action=edit§ion=34">here</a>. Copying: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Perseus-slays-medusa.jpg">This image</a>, for instance, appears in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_%28mythology%29">this page</a>, but does not appear under "image links". Editing a page that links to the image seems to re-associate the link. ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2004-06-09 12:54 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rh%2C45.jpg didn't show a backlink to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodium. 2. I added the image to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paddu/sandbox. 3. Now it only showed one backlink to my sandbox. 4. I added more copies of the image to my sandbox. 5. It still showed only one backlink to my sandbox. I thought that the list of backlinks always omitted one entry due to some off-by-one error. 6. I commented out the image in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodium (this was just for a short duration, I was too lazy to upload an image just to check this & then ask sysops to delete it after the experiment). 7. It still showed one backlink to my sandbox. 8. I uncommented the image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodium. 9. It still showed one backlink to my sandbox. 10. I commented out the image in my sandbox. 11. Now it properly shows a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodium. (!!!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Paddu ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-06-09 13:00 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO Related bugs: #968603, #584445 ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-06-09 13:08 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO Related bugs: #968603, #584445 ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-06-09 13:09 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO Related bugs: #968603, #584445 ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-08-07 04:52 Sender: SF user vibber This was caused by an incomplete backup/restore during a database crash. The image links simply need to be regenerated, and are when the page is edited. This is not a software bug, but a wikipedia-specific issue.
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I believe that it occurs every time a wiki is upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3.
Even when both the image description and the page linking to it are updated, sometimes the image is listed as unused. see: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Iochroma_fuchsioides.jpg http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iochroma both were created by me today. So it sems this is not 'just' a matter of conversion.
The image i just reported finally shows the page from which it was linked. I uploaded a new image : http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Streptosolen_closeup.jpg used from http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptosolen This link isnt shown either, but perhaps there is some delay so that it takes a few hours before the link is recognised?
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Old issue with links tables, which have since been regenerated.
So now there will never be any delay?
There was never any "delay". The links are either there or they're not.
Okay, I apologize for being unclear. Is it now the case that "What Links Here" will now always be correct for images, or are there caveats?
It should always be correct unless there's some other problem. Please don't change the severity of an old bug to "enhancement". Enhancement bug mean a request to add a new feature, which this never was.
Thank you for your answer. If I changed the status it was by mistake, and I apologize.
