[ubuntu-art] Images on the wiki don't show up / surge protection

[Smartboy]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As some people noticed, the backgrounds pages on our wiki sometimes load
> with a number of the last images missing.
>
> This was already part of the reason for the default/abstract/photo
> split, but now it reached a point, where I never get to see everything
> on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds/Extra_Photo
>
> This is due to the wiki's "surge protection". You will even be told so
> if you try to open one of the full size images directly after
> (incomplete) loading of the page.
>
> We even lost a contributor because he wanted to use one of those image
> hosters and I didn't allow that because there shall be no holes in the
> wiki in a few months or even a few years.
>
> It's a known issue and I already talked with Kenneth and Matthew Nuzum,
> but I want to make this new statement official:
>
> It seems there is no easy fix, but sheesh, is that ever ridiculous and
> annoying. I did set up the background pages and kept an eye on them, but
> I will not continue to do so and not lift a finger in this area for the
> next cycle, unless this issue is resolved.
>
>
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>
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How about we require some demo art first before you submit something? To me
it seems every Tom, Dick, and Harry that use Ubuntu take their pictures and
post them there, even though many of them don't even follow the color
scheme.

Smartboy
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