Author: ilya.schurov
Description:
Now the link "Upload a new version of this file" on the image page refer to a page with upload form which is identical to a form of initial upload. This lead to misunderstanding, because behaviour of this form is quite different: the content of "summary" goes only to log, and not updates the description of the image. So some users try to change the description of the image (e.g. add {{Image}} template or fair use rationale) by re-uploading the image with proper "summary" field -- and finally lost their data. It seems to be rather serious problem, because current behaviour of this form is contr-intuitive. The lack of description often leads to deleting of the image, which also have negative effect on attitude of contributors which images are deleted.
This can be solved by changing the form of "secondary" upload. We need at least to have different system messages used in this form to explain user the difference of the behaviour. It will be also good to change "summary" field to text input instead of textarea.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement