On 9/19/05, James D. Forrester <james(a)jdforrester.org> wrote:
OTOH, Brion told me[0] that making image deletion
non-permanent and,
indeed, as easily revertable as any other delete is trivial[2], it's
just that the dev.s don't really get requests for it but they get
requests for a lot of other stuff instead (new features, "help, the
site's too slow!", etc.). If the community decides that non-permanent
image deletion was a particularly valuable feature, I'm sure they'd add
it...[3]
[0] - Though he may well have been drunk at the time.[1]
[1] - Yes, indeed, Wikimania /was/ fun. ;-)
[2] - For Wikipedia-sized values of "trivial". :-)
[3] - Well, OK, they might say that our desire is mis-guided and what we
/really/ need is a new thingumydoodle, but...
I wouldn't call myself a
developer, but I know my way around php
(though i'm rusty as i have not touched it in a few years, until
recently), and have a tendency of understanding most types of code.
Yes, it would be easy. It would also eat a substantial amount of
server space, and have to be cleared out somewhat often.