On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:32 PM, William Allen Simpson<[email protected]> wrote: > Going back a bit in the thread history, > > Ilmari Karonen wrote: >> Also, Commons alone has almost a hundred thousand existing GIF files. >> Converting them all to PNG would be a significant job, especially since >> changing the format (and thus the suffix) means that they can't just be >> reuploaded under the same title. >> >> (Which means you have to copy the description page and the old upload >> history, update links on all other projects, give any non-Wikimedia >> projects using ForeignAPIRepo time to update their links and hope that >> they actually do so, and even after you've done all that, it *still* >> ends up messing with watchlists, user contribution histories and old >> article versions because there's no way to update those. Eugh.) >> > I'm not very familiar image files, but.... > > Doesn't move work with image description pages? What would it take to > move the histories and update the watch lists? > > Doesn't redirect work with images? What would it take? > > Assuming that the above work, that would handle the old article versions. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
I know image redirecting was enabled briefly then disabled due to some issues found during the process. Those have all been fixed (afaik). Was this re-enabled on WMF? -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
