Brion Vibber wrote:
Tomer Chachamu wrote:
On 30/06/05, Brion Vibber brion@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.
Polyglot