On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:32 PM, William Allen Simpsonwilliam.allen.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
Going back a bit in the thread history,
Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Also, Commons alone has almost a hundred thousand existing GIF files. Converting them all to PNG would be a significant job, especially since changing the format (and thus the suffix) means that they can't just be reuploaded under the same title.
(Which means you have to copy the description page and the old upload history, update links on all other projects, give any non-Wikimedia projects using ForeignAPIRepo time to update their links and hope that they actually do so, and even after you've done all that, it *still* ends up messing with watchlists, user contribution histories and old article versions because there's no way to update those. Eugh.)
I'm not very familiar image files, but....
Doesn't move work with image description pages? What would it take to move the histories and update the watch lists?
Doesn't redirect work with images? What would it take?
Assuming that the above work, that would handle the old article versions.
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I know image redirecting was enabled briefly then disabled due to some issues found during the process. Those have all been fixed (afaik). Was this re-enabled on WMF?
-Chad