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Special:FileDuplicateSearch user interaction is utterly baffling
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Description

A few things I note trying out this special page:

  • There's no explanation when you get no matches -- did you misspell something? Did it just break? Did it submit correctly? Who knows!
  • It searches for matches in the local image database only, and does not return any results from remote repositories (Commons etc)
  • It gets the hash from the local image database only, and cannot search for local duplicates of a given remote file.

I'd recommend this get redone to:

  • clarify when the requested file could not be found
  • use FileRepo system correctly to query both sources and matches out of all repositories

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FileDuplicateSearch?filename=Elephant_Mud_Bath.ogg

Details

Reference
bz18011

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:34 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz18011.
  • Bug 27103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

All above issues fixed in r81619.