On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:32 PM, William Allen
Simpson<william.allen.simpson(a)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