On 9/19/05, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
OTOH, Brion told me[0] that making image deletion non-permanent and, indeed, as easily revertable as any other delete is trivial[2], it's just that the dev.s don't really get requests for it but they get requests for a lot of other stuff instead (new features, "help, the site's too slow!", etc.). If the community decides that non-permanent image deletion was a particularly valuable feature, I'm sure they'd add it...[3]
[0] - Though he may well have been drunk at the time.[1] [1] - Yes, indeed, Wikimania /was/ fun. ;-) [2] - For Wikipedia-sized values of "trivial". :-) [3] - Well, OK, they might say that our desire is mis-guided and what we /really/ need is a new thingumydoodle, but...
I wouldn't call myself a developer, but I know my way around php (though i'm rusty as i have not touched it in a few years, until recently), and have a tendency of understanding most types of code. Yes, it would be easy. It would also eat a substantial amount of server space, and have to be cleared out somewhat often.