[WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 01:59:06 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I disagree, and I'd like to see file renaming opened up. It sucks
seeing a file with a blatantly wrong name sitting there for years.
Sure, the file names could be totally arbitrary (a882be8.jpg) or they
could be extremely meaningful - but having them stuck at whatever the
uploader originally thought of is not ideal. Especially since
redirects exist and work.

Steve



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