On Wikimedia Commons we have some scripts that only have to bother about the count of global usages, not where it is used. These main types are there:

• Script that request CommonsDelinker to replace files across wiki projects simply want to know: Used or not?
• The user-gallery-script could provide these information so the user gets an idea what kind of images are often used and what not
• A script that is assisting creating deletion requests could display this number so it is easier to find files not being in project scope (a file is in scope automatically if it is used in an other Wikimedia Project) and those you better don't touch

This is currently possible when querying a single file. But when it comes to multiple files, the global usage is limited to 500 entries in total, not per file.

Either a limit per file is introduced (I would set it to a low number for most tools) or something that returns the number is required.

Thank you.

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Severity: enhancement