[WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

stevertigo stvrtg at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 21:17:20 UTC 2009


Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/
>> \o/

> Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for
> files and not just articles?

Don't imagine they will want to let just anyone start moving files -
not just for the server load reason, nor RAM or disk space issues (?),
but because its just not necessary. We learned long ago to treat
filenames as arbitrary and part of some kind of useful scheme.

-Stevertigo



More information about the WikiEN-l mailing list