https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842
--- Comment #20 from Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> 2009-03-19 18:46:07 UTC --- (In reply to comment #18) > If they have basic experience with MediaWiki, they will have a look at the > deletion log and find the correct file name. If they don't, I'm sorry for > them, > but there's not much we can do. File redirects break our own tools, IMHO we > should first think of our own projects and after that of the reusers. ... Are you serious? *Not breaking links* helps everyone, ESPECIALLY US FIRST AND FOREMOST. If CheckUsage is broken, fix CheckUsage. If CheckUsage can't or won't be fixed, let us know so we can replace it with something that works. The user-hostile attitude of "well you can hunt around for hours trying to figure out why the link broke, nothing we can do" is completely unacceptable for a project like Wikimedia which has the explicit aim of getting useful and interesting material into peoples' hands. Sometimes it's necessary to let a suboptimal situation go for a while when there's limited attention, but this isn't one of them -- this is a case where you're advocating *spending active effort to hurt users* by breaking links, and this is not a position the Wikimedia Foundation can support. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
