--- Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Once again, I seem to have missed a discussion
:-(
Where was the discussion where participants
decided that renaming a page
will be a sysop only feature ?
This was an emergency measure to prevent a series of
page move
vandalisms by a vandalbot. It was moving pages with
huge histories,
which may have been a cause of the site
significantly slowing down
last night. It was too slow at one point for sysops
to be able to fix
the problem as they couldn't move the pages back
without experiencing
timeouts. I hope you understand that emergency
measures like this need
to be taken quickly, and there will not always be
time for discussion
on this. It was not intended to be permanent, and
has now been changed
to allow all but the most recently registered users
to move pages.
Angela.
Oh, okay, good then :-)
Well, non english users do not know much about english
vandalism, and actually, a french user posted on the
french mailing list yesterday to ask "why the
wikipedia is in the read only mode" ?
I understand entirely emergency measures; we should
just try to explain people what is going on a minimum
though. Those not on en: just can't guess.
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