On 6/28/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
I just sort of envisaged a "is this image fair use? No? [[Move it to Commons]]!" kind of link appearing on images in the various Wikipedias. It doesn't seem like something that should be inherently restricted, either, since the action can be carried out manually by anyone...
As the feature was formerly implemented, at least, you downloaded an XML file to your hard drive with Special:Export and then uploaded it with Special:Import, which basically meant that the target accepted your upload without question and you could rewrite page history. If this is no longer the case, then it would be worth considering easier interwiki moves, at least.
But do we really want *interwiki* page-move vandalism? You'd have to go to the target to revert it, if it's restricted to autoconfirmed like normal moves you possibly wouldn't be able to move it back until SUL, if it's not restricted then it's even easier than normal page-move vandalism, etc. So restricting it to admins is a good idea, until we get an intermediate "trusted" group of some kind.