Hi Leigh good point -- Other than the the impeccable personal memory of our active WE members :-D -- we don't currently keep a log of WE related feature requests for future Mediawiki development.
A good sign in my view -- suggesting that the WE project has matured to the level where the community may need to think about the pros & cons of delegated responsibilities for tasks like this. What do folk think? Wayne On Apr 8, 7:23 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > good suggestions I reckon.. admin related suggestions keep coming in like > this.. is anyone keeping track? which ones are actioned, or which ones do we > vote on for actioning each month? > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Declan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 4, 5:38 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Declan > > > > The person who uploaded the corn pic would have had to have pushed past > > a > > > prompt saying "there is already a file by that name, overwrite?"....... > > > > Leigh Blackall > > Hi Leigh, > > yes, they did push by the prompt (as I said, no big deal, I had a > > backup). Now, given that I plan to continue leading groups of 20 or > > more students into Wikieducator each year, and we also attract scores > > of other new users, pushing past that prompt is likely to be happen on > > occasion. I have emphasized with all of my students that they can do > > no harm, and we have the history, and the undo functions. However, > > this seems to be the first very real chink in the armor. Any of us > > can easily overwrite an image and there is no recourse. > > > To me, the beauty of wiki educator (and other wikis) is that you can > > put it down and walk away and reasonably expect to be able to retrieve > > data without resort to individual backup. People may contribute, > > and then move jobs, crash computers etc. Central backup is > > essential. It took quite a bit of work to copy all of the content I > > had on wikia over here, and thankfully I left the data also on wikia, > > so I had a backup of that particular image. However, I lack the time > > and resources to individually backup the files uploaded by 36 new > > users. So I see the image overwrite issue as a real problem. > > > Possible solutions: > > 1. Limit overwriting of images to original user > > 2. keep the original file in the history just like all of the other > > content > > 3. hope that the sky is not really fallling; this problem is rare; > > McCabe is an alarmist:) > > > Cheers, > > > Declan > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
