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!
>
>  --
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>  http://yuvi.in/blog
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