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Warning when uploading images like 600px-foo
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Description

Author: dbenbenn

Description:
At the Commons, we have a lot of images that match the regular
expression

^[[:digit:]]+px-

See, for example,

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_for_cleanup

Virtually without exception, these are MediaWiki's thumbnails that
users have accidentally downloaded from some other Wikimedia site,
and uploaded at the Commons. When uploading an file whose title
matches the above expression, we'd like a warning similar to
the "file with this name exists already" warning, that would say
something like

This appears to be a thumbnail that you just downloaded from 
another Wikimedia site.  Please go back and get the
full-resolution version to upload here.

With the same "Save file" and "Re-upload" options.

See

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Disallow_image
s_that_start_with_600px-

for a discussion.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Disallow_images_that_start_with_600px-

Details

Reference
bz3089

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:44 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz3089.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

gangleri wrote:

see also
bug 3069: Disallow uploading of scaled down images on commons

foenyx wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3069 ***

dbenbenn wrote:

Bug 3069 has been marked WONTFIX, so I'm reopening this bug. On the Commons we
*really* need the UI to be more forgiving of this common human error. If they
aren't going to be outright disallowed, at least MediaWiki should be able to
display a prominent warning.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3069 ***