Hey Romaine, I've posted to the bug and I suggest we keep discussion focused there.
Cheers, Erik On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Romaine Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Yuvi, > > As I requested on IRC: please disable the patch, it is breaking a good > organized Wiki Loves Monuments. > > As I explained to you on IRC, you are now proposing to re-create the problems > we had last year with campaigns. The whole purpose of the new campaigns is to > be able to track changes done in the campaigns, as last year we could each > time restore the campaigns, also too many users can edit the technical part > of campaigns so we have now one person in charge of the campaigns, creating > and maintaining them for the national teams, and we certainly do not want > people to visit these technical pages. It are highly sensitive pages and > there is no further protection possible. > > Already in the past weeks several campaigns were changed the wrong way and > had to be restored, we do not want to repeat the situation of 2012 again. > > I filled a bug to prevent this idea to be executed: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53570 > > We will do everything to disable this system on these crucial and critical > technical pages. > > Please enable this somewhere else, but not on these technical pages which are > solely used for maintenance. > > Romaine > > > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 8/29/13, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Nicer, more useful Campaign pages coming > soon! > To: "Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition" > <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 9:40 PM > > Hello everyone! > > I've been working on making Campaign pages more useful over > the last > few days. Details about the system are at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda/Campaigns_namespace_proposal, > but even better - you can see a live demo! > > http://blue-dragon.wmflabs.org/wiki/Campaign:show-off-campaigns > > The idea being that you can pass on links to the Campaign > page itself > and people can upload from there. They can also see a > description, and > other images that have been uploaded (it currently shows the > last 50 > images). This is far more useful than the current version, > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wlm-nl, > which is just a > JSON structure. > > Suggestions / Comments for improving the feature are > welcome! While > initially I expected this to take longer to finish, things > moved much > faster than expected and the patch is very close to being > merged now! > I'll try to get this deployed next week. > > Thanks! > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
