On sab, 2002-06-15 at 17:45, Bryan Derksen wrote:
At 05:22 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
BTW, is it really necessary to have two upload
utilities in the first place?
Both upload pages have instructions in English and do the same thing.
Shouldn't we have one central upload utility for the whole project with maybe
a couple of other ones for each of the most active non-English wikipedias
that have syops of their own?
If it's not too inefficient and space-consuming, I would personally prefer
to see each wiki have its own entirely separate upload space. That way it
will be much easier to keep things tidy.
That's how it would work, if the non-English wikipedias were already
converted to the new software, like some of us were promised months ago.
Since this has been delayed and delayed and delayed, everybody has to
use the common upload spaces.
However, a lot of stuff can easily be shared between wikis --
photographs, some maps and graphs that don't contain language-dependent
text. We can't _force_ people to upload ten copies of the same thing,
and I'm not sure we ought to.
Personally, I upload things that are appropriate for an English-language
article to the English wiki (textless images, images with English text,
sound files that are samples of other languages suitable for an article
_about_ that language), and anything else to the meta wiki.
As it stands, I'm paranoid about
deleting stuff from Uploads because even if it isn't used _here_, it might
still be used on one of the other language wikis.
Anything uploaded by an unknown user without a filled-in description
field in the log (in English or otherwise) is fair game for deletion as
far as I'm concerned. (Of course, that doesn't apply to meta, which is
running an old version of the software without the description field in
the upload form.)
I imagine such links
wouldn't show up in any future "what pages link this image?" function,
either.
Not without more integration between the databases than is currently
available, no.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)