Author: romaine.wiki
Description:
I heard today that a developer wants to add soon some kind of gallery/show to the campaign pages on Commons like on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wlm-nl . It is scheduled to be live next week.
That we have these pages for campaigns is because of the problems of previous years that users (like admins) changed the campaigns unwantedly and caused us a lot of trouble. There were two key problems that caused us all the troubles: 1. there was no history to see what was changed, 2. the technical pages for campaigns were visited by too much people and altered too often the wrong way. The first problem was solved by the new campaign namespace. The second problem has been solved by having only one person responsible for maintaining and setting up the campaigns, with no links to the technical campaign pages to avoid users going there,
We absolutely do not want to have the public visit these pages as they are highly sensitive and purely for technical maintenance. To get the perspective. In 2012 alone, more then 365,000 images were uploaded during the month September through the campaigns. It is a contest we want to have it run smoothly without any problems and the last thing we want is to have people visiting the campaigns as too many people can change them.
There is no reason at all for users to visit these technical pages and we want as less as possible users to visit these maintenance pages. None of the uploaders will see this page, none of the local organizers is led to it, on purpose! Last year we led many users to it and let to a lot of trouble.
It was one of the biggest problems of last years competition and we absolutely do want to prevent that to happen again.
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