Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Multimedia and Commons/Watchlisting an image would show when it is added or removed from a page

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Watchlisting an image would show when it is added or removed from a page

  • Problem: Watch-listing an image/file does not notify you to changes of its usage, i.e. when the image/file is added or removed from different pages across Wikimedia projects.
  • Who would benefit: Everyone. It would help monitor file misuse and would provide some satisfaction that hey, my image is being used.
  • Proposed solution: Adding a functionality that would show when an image in your watchlist is used (or no longer) across Wikimedia projects.
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  • Proposer: Renata3 (talk) 23:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I'm wondering what the functionality would look like. Would you be able to watchlist a file hosted on commons from, for example, jp.wikipedia? If so, should it show only additional usage on jp.wikipedia, with universal file usage be limited to watchlists on commons? Vanisaac (talk) 14:41, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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