Why is deletion of images permanent ? Is there a good reason it is so while articles may be restored ?
While images deletion is permanent, it really tips the balance in favor of deletionists, I do not think it is fair. If there is no possibility to retrieve a deleted pictures, deletion should possibly not be as easy than just clicking on delete.
Is there a solution other than retrieving lost images on our mirrors ?
Anthere
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:38:22 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Why is deletion of images permanent ? Is there a good reason it is so while articles may be restored ?
While images deletion is permanent, it really tips the balance in favor of deletionists, I do not think it is fair. If there is no possibility to retrieve a deleted pictures, deletion should possibly not be as easy than just clicking on delete.
Is there a solution other than retrieving lost images on our mirrors ?
If the image has been there long enough to get into the upload dumps you can retrive it there, e.g. all the images which have been deleted since 2005-02-03 but existed before that time are in the 20050203_upload.tar dump avalible at http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/
Anthere
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:38:22 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Why is deletion of images permanent ? Is there a good reason it is so while articles may be restored ?
My guess is that this is to save space - images, and old versions of images, could end up taking up a lot of space if everything was there forever. But you could be right that either it should be made harder to delete one, or some opportunity for undeletion retained - perhaps the files could be kept for a certain amount of time, and periodically purged?
Anthere wrote:
Why is deletion of images permanent ?
Because it's more complicated to store them in a restricted-access deletion queue, and no such queue has been implemented yet.
Is there a good reason it is so while articles may be restored ?
Article undeletion was a much higher priority, and also essentially easier to do (as it doesn't require moving and hiding actual files, merely shuffling data between tables). Therefore it was implemented much earlier.
Is there a solution other than retrieving lost images on our mirrors ?
We have complete backups of the image upload directories, and can restore files from backup if they are not available elsewhere.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
Why is deletion of images permanent ?
Because it's more complicated to store them in a restricted-access deletion queue, and no such queue has been implemented yet.
Is there a good reason it is so while articles may be restored ?
Article undeletion was a much higher priority, and also essentially easier to do (as it doesn't require moving and hiding actual files, merely shuffling data between tables). Therefore it was implemented much earlier.
Is there a solution other than retrieving lost images on our mirrors ?
We have complete backups of the image upload directories, and can restore files from backup if they are not available elsewhere.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
okay, adress of restoring noted.
Ant
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