https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53570
Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> I heard today that a developer wants to add soon some kind of gallery/show to
> the campaign pages on Commons like on
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wlm-nl . It is scheduled to be
> live
> next week.
>
> That we have these pages for campaigns is because of the problems of previous
> years that users (like admins) changed the campaigns unwantedly and caused
> us a
> lot of trouble. There were two key problems that caused us all the troubles:
> 1.
> there was no history to see what was changed, 2. the technical pages for
> campaigns were visited by too much people and altered too often the wrong
> way.
> The first problem was solved by the new campaign namespace. The second
> problem
> has been solved by having only one person responsible for maintaining and
> setting up the campaigns, with no links to the technical campaign pages to
> avoid users going there,
>
> We absolutely do not want to have the public visit these pages as they are
> highly sensitive and purely for technical maintenance. To get the
> perspective.
> In 2012 alone, more then 365,000 images were uploaded during the month
> September through the campaigns. It is a contest we want to have it run
> smoothly without any problems and the last thing we want is to have people
> visiting the campaigns as too many people can change them.
>
> There is no reason at all for users to visit these technical pages and we
> want
> as less as possible users to visit these maintenance pages. None of the
> uploaders will see this page, none of the local organizers is led to it, on
> purpose! Last year we led many users to it and let to a lot of trouble.
>
> It was one of the biggest problems of last years competition and we
> absolutely
> do want to prevent that to happen again.
It sounds to me like the problem had to do with changing of the campaign
settings in a way that was not transparent and accountable. Putting the
configuration for a campaign into a wiki page largely solves this problem,
because whoever is visiting it, you have 1) built-in permissions, such as
protection, to prevent undesirable editing and 2) you have a revision history
to track down.
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