[WikiEN-l] image placeholders allegedly latest thing deprecated by MOS

[Philip Sandifer]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:

> On 10/10/08, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/10/10 Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:
>>> Oh, did we finally do away with an innocuous innovation that  
>>> actually
>>> measurably and demonstrably increased the number of free images we
>>> have in favor of short-term concerns about how "pretty" articles  
>>> look?
>>
>> No the devs did that a few months back. While I could rebuild the
>> system to get around the problems it would require a lot of messing
>> around in the mediawiki namespace and I don't feel like trying that
>> without admin powers.
>
> If anyone has statistics for how many photos have been submitted via
> clicking on the placeholder, now would a good time to break 'em out.

I believe David Gerard knows these. David?

-Phil