Brion Vibber wrote:
Tomer Chachamu wrote:
On 30/06/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Someone has changed the $wgCapitalLinks setting
on
en.wiktionary.org,
causing many thousands of links to break without warning -- far too
many
for humans to fix up in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm really, really, really annoyed about this, and I'd appreciate
it if
whoever made this premature change would at least confess to the deed.
I'm really, really sorry about this: I'm sure somebody announced it in
the IRC channel and thus knew who was responsible - but I've forgotten
who it was.
It was Tim. He didn't announce the change (that I noticed, anyway) and
forgot to log it in the administrator's log, then happened to be away
from the computer for the next several hours.
There has been a vote with a very positive outcome and somebody
apparently said something about it on irc. The English Wiktionary had
indeed decided to switch over, but it had not been decided when.
Anyway, on the page where the vote had happened this was indicated and
there was a link to a page where a discussion was held how to go about
it. If Tim had read all that, he would have known we were not ready
for the change.
Anyway, I for one, am glad the change has finally happened and I'm
sure we'll manage to clean up the mess, eventually.
That's pretty well my take on the situation. I wouldn't put too much
blame on Tim for this. A self-administered slap on the knuckles with
wet spaghetti should be adequate punishment. We'll believe him when he
says the punishment has been carried out. ;-)
One determined opponent had succeeded in grinding the process to a halt,
and it didn't look as though it would go anywhere without bold action.
The clean up will be bigger than I would want, but we'll cope. There
are a few points where we may still need special help from the devs, and
those will become clear over the next few days.
Ec