Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-31 Thread Ting Chen
Hello Amir, on zh-wp we delete the old version. The old version is no more used at all, and thus no more fair to keep them. Still provide them so that users can find them and copy them looks for me like distributing copy violated content. Greetings Ting On 31.05.2011 08:16, wrote Amir E. Ahar

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/31 Michael Snow : > On 5/30/2011 2:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use >> files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other >> projects as well. >> >> The main questions is: Should old versions of fa

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread Michael Snow
On 5/30/2011 2:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hello, > > There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use > files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other > projects as well. > > The main questions is: Should old versions of fair-use files be > deleted? The two

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread K. Peachey
"The two main points that support the deletion are that it saves space on the server" No, it does not, The file is just moved elsewhere on the server where it isn't directly accessible. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

[Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other projects as well. The main questions is: Should old versions of fair-use files be deleted? The two main points that support the deletion are that it saves sp