--- Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Once again, I seem to have missed a discussion :-( Where was the discussion where participants
decided that renaming a page
will be a sysop only feature ?
This was an emergency measure to prevent a series of page move vandalisms by a vandalbot. It was moving pages with huge histories, which may have been a cause of the site significantly slowing down last night. It was too slow at one point for sysops to be able to fix the problem as they couldn't move the pages back without experiencing timeouts. I hope you understand that emergency measures like this need to be taken quickly, and there will not always be time for discussion on this. It was not intended to be permanent, and has now been changed to allow all but the most recently registered users to move pages.
Angela.
Oh, okay, good then :-) Well, non english users do not know much about english vandalism, and actually, a french user posted on the french mailing list yesterday to ask "why the wikipedia is in the read only mode" ?
I understand entirely emergency measures; we should just try to explain people what is going on a minimum though. Those not on en: just can't guess.
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