Author: mattbisanz

Description:
When moving files to new names on enwiki I encountered the following error. The move completes as normal, but the script generates the following error

• Api error: Unknown error: ``'' - unknownerror

The image description page moves to the new name and leaves a redirect at the old name, but the file itself stays at the old page.

Places it has happened are on are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Are_You_Man_Enough.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vermont_Street_(San_Francisco).jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Honey.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jewel.jpg

With Are you man enough, I was able to move and delete the file and then move the file description page on top of it and restore.

With Vermont Street, when I tried the above, the file undeletion generated the error

Undelete failed; someone else may have undeleted the page first.

<p></p>

Error undeleting file: Unable to write to file "public/archive/a/a4/20070717110943!DSCN7043.JPG": file exists

I restored the image by viewing and downloading the deleted image and then re-uploading it.

With Honey and Jewel I haven't tried anything, so they still need fixing.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=278063006#File_renaming_error