WikiIndex talk:Community portal/Archive 3
How to: rename a file
How to rename a page for a file like: File:HelmutLeitnerPhotographsMarkDilley.jpg Manorainjan (talk) 15:35, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- I don't know of a way to rename files as they are more an object than a wiki page. I am also not sure why you would want to rename the file. ~~ MarkDilley
- I can do that! What name do you want it calling? Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • Admin / 'Crat • talk2HH 20:23, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Sean, please don't rename it without a fuller discussion, I would rather not have a repeat of Category:Inactive. Thanks, MarkDilley
- OK, understood :)) I'm guessing the rationale by which Manorainjan wishes to rename it is simply for more accurate sorting in categories, ie, alphabetically. Afterall, if I wish to search for your mug-shots, I'd look under either D or M :pp Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • Admin / 'Crat • talk2HH 21:57, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Oh, ok, so something that means the same, written differently - like File:MarkDilleyPhotographedByHelmutLeitner.jpg would work. Thanks, MarkDilley
- Right ;-) I wish to name it 'Mark_Dilley_by_Helmut_Leitner'. The logic is, that a picture with the name HelmutLeitnerPhotographsMarkDilley would have to show Mr. Leitner and his camera in action. But we see only Mark ;-) Manorainjan (talk) 22:22, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Is there any rename-Tag like the delete?
{'{rename|my favourite name}'}
- Cool, although I would prefer to keep the file name in CamelCase. Best, MarkDilley
- WhatIsTheAdvantageOfCamelCase?Manorainjan (talk) 22:34, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
@Mark - yes, exactly. The image won't change, just the name of the file. Would 'MarkDilley_by_HelmutLeitner' fit your CamelCaseophobia?
@Manorainjan - no, we don't have a template requesting a file rename - feel free to create one if you wish. Re CamelCase - Mark likes to hang onto that with the same viggor that a starving dog hangs onto the butchers bones!! Don't even go there! :)))))
Oh, only sysops can rename files. Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • Admin / 'Crat • talk2HH 22:49, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Sean You confuse me since WikiIndex has no list of sysops.Manorainjan (talk) 23:26, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Doesn't Special:ListUsers/sysop fit your need? --YiFei | talk 23:43, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Manorainjan, CamelCase is the original way links were written in wiki from 1996 to 2002. It is a smart way of linking and I like to keep the WikiEthos. :-) ~~ MarkDilley (suggested edit is ok, not the way I would prefer but acceptable.)
So we all got our conditioning. In my case (hehe) I once could not restore a needed backup, because the windows backup software wrote the files with öäü and blanks in the name, but the DOS-based restore part could not handle that.:-/ Manorainjan (talk) 23:26, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Mark, do we have your agreement for 'MarkDilley_by_HelmutLeitner' as the rename? Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • Admin / 'Crat • talk2HH 12:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- Sure MarkDilley