[WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

[Gwern Branwen]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

All of that would seem equally applicable to articles. ('If you don't
like the random name it was created with, just make a redirect...')

-- 
gwern