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.
• More comments:
• Phabricator tickets:
• Proposer: Renata3 (talk) 23:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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)

• I'd be curious to know how this would be technically possible, but would be excited to use it. There are tools like GLAMorgan, GLAMorous, etc. to help identify which images are being used where, but it relies on running those tools every time and there's no way to learn of new uses. I think that most of us who contribute media to Commons do so with the hope that they will be used, but short of checking all the files on a regular basis or adding them ourselves there's no way to find out. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:04, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
• This is the equivalent of making changes in "what links here" appear in the watchlist, right? I would also be excited to use that!--Uwe a (talk) 15:40, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
• Related (but not exactly similar) phabricator ticket: T77154: Notification: Your file was used. ♥Ainali ^talk_{contributions} 21:03, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support A nice feedback to positive reinforce publishing useful images in Wikimedia.EternamenteAprendiz (talk) 19:16, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Movses (talk) 19:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support useful feature Akela (talk) 20:08, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I fight a vandal who misuses certain images. This would save me regularly polling Related Changes. Certes (talk) 21:16, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Martinkunev (talk) 23:24, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support per what I wrote above — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:29, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support —— Eric Liu_{（留言．百科用戶頁）} 04:37, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support JopkeB (talk) 05:39, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Mbkv717 (talk) 07:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Abductive (talk) 08:59, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Clarinetjo (talk) 11:39, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support NMaia (talk) 12:30, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Ján Kepler (talk) 14:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Geraki ^T_L 17:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tylwyth Eldar (talk) 19:50, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support dwf² (talk) 23:04, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 01:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support JPxG (talk) 06:01, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - yona B. (D) 07:57, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support TohaomgTohaomg (talk) 11:24, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support 沈澄心✉ 13:18, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sadads (talk) 16:39, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Libcub (talk) 20:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support BugWarp (talk) 13:07, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 14:11, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support James Martindale (talk) 17:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support czar 18:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tuvalkin (talk) 21:31, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Chris857 (talk) 00:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Molgreen (talk) 04:48, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Theshumai (talk) 22:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Francois-Pier (talk) 23:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support DGtal (talk) 08:21, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ThomasLendt (talk) 14:05, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Geagea (talk) 14:08, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support — Bilorv (talk) 17:33, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support But it should be optional, hopefully with an exclusion list (some icons on used on literally millions of pages).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  07:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Bgrus22 (talk) 21:43, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Luan (discussão) 19:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Stephan Hense (talk) 23:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support GiFontenelle (talk) 05:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support If that can be modified in settings. Golmore (talk) 07:00, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Admittedly only for vanity, but would be nice to easily know where your images are used ~~ Alex Noble - talk 14:47, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Dey.sandip (talk) 16:00, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Señoritaleona (talk) 00:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Jklamo (talk) 15:39, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Nachtbold (talk) 17:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)