Last modified: 2014-09-23 23:41:37 UTC
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.
I'm not sure that this is quite the intended purpose of the page; an image is "used" if it appears on some page.
Maybe an orphaned images page?
Basically a cross search for images that both: 1) Those already in Special:Unusedimages 2) Those not linked to from anything except category pages. That simple.
Another good thing is if "Unused files" could sort images by category.
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.
Created attachment 5444 [details] This patch allows to see usage of image pagelinks in statistics on Image: page set $wgImagePageLinks=true; in LocalSettings.php to enable it.
Created attachment 5445 [details] This patch allows to see usage of image pagelinks in statistics on Image: page set $wgImagePageLinks=true; in LocalSettings.php to enable it.
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!
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!
Comment on attachment 5445 [details] 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.
