On 30/01/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
There are a lot of things we could do to enhance the popularity of commons, but the page name issue really should be solved first.
It's in the long term plans for mediawiki to support filenames which are unrelated to the file type.... but even using that will require massive renames on commons. Does anyone have any suggestions? There are a lot of possibilities.
I would imagine some renaming thing would be part of the transition, don't you? Even if it was just Foo.jpg to Foo-jpg or 'Foo jpg'.
I am pretty sure the file storage transition thing will also allow image renaming as a consequence.
The limited details I have found about it are at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap ("Expand FileStore to all image storage for filename reform, better cache/mirroring ability") and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileStore .
Another question is.. are we ready to handle an increase in public visibility?
IMO that's a pretty clear "of course not".
Anyway, just wanted to say that I strongly oppose disallowing anon-page creation, at least until SUL has been implemented. After that, I will re-evaluate my position.
Just delete the crud. It's not a disaster, it's just the fact in the life of a completely open wiki.
cheers Brianna