Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: > Yes, some of my own files have "wrong" names, such as when I > attempted to give them names that included the date a photo was > taken, but later realized I got the date wrong for some of the > pictures and fixed it in the description, bu

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:59:06 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > I disagree, and I'd like to see file renaming opened up. It sucks > seeing a file with a blatantly wrong name sitting there for years. > Sure, the file names could be totally arbitrary (a882be8.jpg) or they > could be extremely meaningful

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, stevertigo wrote: > Don't imagine they will want to let just anyone start moving files - > not just for the server load reason, nor RAM or disk space issues (?), > but because its just not necessary. We learned long ago to treat > filenames as arbitrary and part of

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Wagner
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 13:14, David Gerard wrote: > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ > Again? Bets on how long it'll last this time? -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, stevertigo wrote: > Gwern Branwen wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard wrote: >>> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ >>> \o/ > >> Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for >> file

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread K. Peachey
> Gwern Branwen wrote: > Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for > files and not just articles? After a testing pahse, it will be up to community discussion for consensus most likely. On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, stevertigo wrote: > Don't imagine they will want

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/21 Gwern Branwen : > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ > Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for > files and not just articles? Ask on the tech blog :-) The Common

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread stevertigo
stevertigo wrote: > We learned long ago to treat > filenames as arbitrary and part of some kind of useful scheme. Er, should be "*not* part of some... " -Stevertigo ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread stevertigo
Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ >> \o/ > Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for > files and not just articles? Don't imagine they will want to le

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard wrote: > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ > > \o/ > > > - d. Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for files and not just articles? -- gwern

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread stevertigo
David Gerard wrote: > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ > \o/ Yay. Six years late, and a backlog of only 7 million files. -Stevertigo ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

[WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

2009-09-21 Thread David Gerard
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ \o/ - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l