I think there is no chance of convincing the wikis to
move all their templates *without* leaving redirects.
Birgitte SB
--- White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Why even have any redirects on any wiki? In long
term you are asking for
hundreds of thousands of redirects that could have
been easily avoided.
- White Cat
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Birgitte SB
<birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I think that Commons is not only better equipped
to
handle all these redirects, but also that it make
more
sense to have hundreds of redirects on one wiki
instead of dozens of redirects on hundreds of
wikis.
This is the real meat of the situation, who deals
with
the redirects; Commons or everyone except
Commons.
Training Commons users to handle these has a much
better chance of success than training everyone
else.
Birgitte SB
--- White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Although this has been probably discussed
before...
>
> We currently have a problem with the names
chosen
> for licenses on all wikis.
> Let me explain. Consider the following 5
categories.
> I have noticed that
> they all have a different name for most of the
free
> licenses. Each language
> tends to translate the license name and sticks
to
> > >
> > > Ideally all freely licensed images will
> eventually
> > > be moved to commons. So
> > > all copyright related info should be as commons
> > > compatible as possible.
> > > Translated template names cause a few problems.
> > >
> > > This practice will lead to commons having
> hundreds
> > > of redirects per free
> > > license. Juggling them makes work on commons
> more
> > > difficult. For example
> > > each of those redirects would need to be
> protected
> > > against vandalism as such
> > > vandalism may even have legal implications. For
> > > example someone may sneak a
> > > disclaimer to GFDL templates. Such template
> names
> > > are also not bot-friendly.
> > >
> > >
> > > I would suggest a uniformed template name on all
> > > wikis.
> > >
> > > - White Cat
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