The api doesn't see the usage either. The following image is used in [[en:Donde los ponys pastan]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=imageusage&iutitle=File:Porter_-_Donde_Los_Ponys_Pastan_album_cover.jpg

Special:Whatlinkshere should work.

carnildo wrote:

I think this should be higher-priority than "enhancement": without accurate image usage data, two of my bots can't function properly, and a third will actively cause problems. I'd really rather not go back to screen-scraping, because page HTML is subject to change without notice.

carnildo. I agree with you, but just so you know. You can use this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=File:Porter_-_Donde_Los_Ponys_Pastan_album_cover.jpg&blredirect&blfilterredir=redirects to find redirects for the file. And then you can do seperate imageuse queries again for the redirects to the file.

raising the priority of this bug. Now that file moves are available, this issue has become much more important.

Raised once more to 'critical'. This can cause non-free images to be deleted in the mistaken belief that they are not in use.

No, this is not "critical". Just tell your trigger-happy admins to check for redirects before deleting a file.

There's no need to war over the importance categorization. "blocker" or "enhancement", clearly nobody gives a shit and this bug will get fixed when someone gets around to it.

This "bug" is in GlobalUsage aswell. Although local pagelinks (Special:WhatLinksHere) does list redirects (as a sub-list-item under the redirect itself) - globalusage does not.

EN.WP.ST47 wrote:

*** Bug 23353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This appears to have been fixed somewhere around the line.

Consider [[commons:File:%22A_Spiritual_Landscape%22_by_Lucian_Popov.jpg]]

It has a redirect [[commons:File:Popov 006.jpg]]

I used the redirect on the pages [[testwiki:User:Bawolff/fileRedirTest]] and [[commons:User:Bawolff/test]]. Both of these usages appear on the image description page of [[commons:File:"A_Spiritual_Landscape"_by_Lucian_Popov.jpg]]. Specificly I see:

File usage on Commons

The following 3 pages link to this file:

• User:Bawolff/test
• File:Popov 006.jpg (file redirect) o User:Bawolff/test

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

• Usage on ru.wikipedia.org o Попов, Лукиан Васильевич
• Usage on test.wikipedia.org o User:Bawolff/fileRedirTest

The only minor thing is that in the global usage section, usages of redirects and main file are lumped together. But I think that's ok.

So calling this fixed. Please reopen if there are further issues.

Hmm. Now, a few hours later, the page looks fine. I guess it just takes a while (half hour? 2 hours? what?) for a bot somewhere to do it's job? Can anyone explain? Reclose?