See all the plumbing we had to do for Wikidata; we'll need the same for Commons.
Note: This is scoped to just file meta-data, not fetching binaries which are huge and would have very different service requirements/impacts.
| Jdforrester-WMF | |
| Jun 10 2026, 5:15 PM |
See all the plumbing we had to do for Wikidata; we'll need the same for Commons.
Note: This is scoped to just file meta-data, not fetching binaries which are huge and would have very different service requirements/impacts.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T428224 inbuilt function: convert a Commons File name to a Media ID | ||
| Open | None | T428783 Provide the infrastructure for the function-orchestrator to talk to Wikimedia Commons to fetch file meta-data |
This may well turn into required work for OKR features later, but there are no specific plans right now to schedule it.