[ubuntu-art] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds being updated - don't touch!

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:08 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote:

> Thorwil is updating the wiki page with the backgrounds (as stated in
> his previous email).

> PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THIS PAGE OR ANY OF THE SUB-PAGES UNTIL HE GIVES
> THE GREEN LIGHT.


It's done in principle. We still have to think about where to put what
text regarding default backgrounds.

Adding new stuff is OK.


However, the new pages still need to be cleaned from duplicated
attachments.

I saw 2 options for splitting the page into 3:
 * Create new pages and cut-paste the relevant markup to them
 * Copy the whole page. The copy function of the wiki duplicates the
attachments alongside the page.

With the first approach, I would have had to go through the attachments
on the main page to move them the to the subpages one by one. It would
be complicated to automate this.

So I chose the other way and created lists of all attachments and the
attachments of each category by copying the markup and extracting just
the filenames (grep + search-and-replace).

Now I have a collection of links that trigger the delete operation of
the attachment pages. But the wiki surge protection keeps me from using
them, I'm practically locked out. Each time you try to do too many
operations in short time, this happens.

So I'm asking for volunteers with wiki account, willing to take a block
of links to open them, one by one, not too fast, trying again later if
the wiki acts up. Please reply, I will then send out a block of links to
each volunteer. Will be a piece of cake with enough people ;)


Oh, we should not do this again in the next cycle!


-- 
Thorsten Wilms

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