https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14281
--- Comment #24 from Chris McKenna <[email protected]> 2012-06-30 17:41:23 UTC --- It has just occurred to me that part of the issue might be that the way the list is being used is different from that which was envisaged at the time of its creation. Tim Starling's April 2005 announcement of it's creation (currently found as the first comment at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Bad_image_list/Archive_1#Old.2C_unsectioned_comments_from_the_Village_pump (I've not found the original diff))b egan: > In response to complaints about certain offensive images being used for > vandalism (most notably Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg), I've introduced a bad > image list, which contains a list of images which cannot be included inline > in articles. Inline images are replaced with links to the description page. I > only implemented this feature because the current compromise on Autofellatio > is amenable to it -- I hope this will be used as an anti-vandalism feature > not as a means of censorship. It's use these days is as a means to restrict images that need to be use-restricted for any reason, not just as a means to save the project from descending into a moral panic about sexual imagery (we're *much* hotter about fair use now than we were 7 years ago for example). (In reply to comment #23) > For me, the bottom line must be that if this page > could have been renamed in the same fashion as most pages are renamed, then it > would have been renamed a long time ago. I'm not certain I agree with everything you've said, but I cannot argue that if it could have been renamed locally it would have been by now (at least once). Whether that is sufficient reason to rename it here I don't know though. There is obviously a very good reason why MediaWiki pages can't be renamed like other pages - however, as we've never got an answer as to how complex this change would be, we don't know how strong a reason we need (i.e. if it's trivial changes to 2 lines, then what we have now should be good enough; if though it's a week's work then I'd be looking for a much stronger mandate. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
