[WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

K. Peachey p858snake at yahoo.com.au
Mon Sep 21 22:31:02 UTC 2009


> Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> 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 <stvrtg at gmail.com> 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 some kind of useful scheme.
>
> -Stevertigo
File names shouldn't really matter, afaik when you rename a file it
should also create a redirect to the name new not to break the
pre-existing usage.



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