Check usage

Je signale l’arrivée d’un nouveau petit outil dont je révais : Il permet de vérifier l’usage d’un document media de Commons, à travers tous les projets wikimedia. Selon son auteur, Tim Bartel Wikipedia Check-Usage [1] is a web based tool which can be used to check where commons media is used throughout the wikimedia universe. Also it is able to find « local » duplicates to commons media. Check-Usage is strongly inspired by Arnomane’s check-usage.sh [2] – a unix shell script doing mostly the same job. Because this script has several preconditions to run, like shell access to a unix/linux system and several programs installed on this machine, I though of writing a small web based interface. After short consideration I decided not to write only an interface calling Arnomane’s script, but to re-code it completly. Check-Usage is written in PHP using libcurl. So if you are interested where ‘your’ pictures are used – give it a try. [1] Check-usage/ [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arnomane/Image_usage