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Add option to blank or edit image description on classic Special:Upload while reuploading a new image
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Description

Sometimes templates are used to flag an image needing replaced for whatever reason, for the lazy people going through these flagged images and reuploading then having to either blank or modify (depending on the presence of a license) the image description page separately to remove the template is often too much effort.

It would be prudent to modify the reupload portion of the upload feature to replace the content of the image description page with the content contained in the "File changes" box. You can even have the current contents inside the box already and the uploader can change or modify it as needed then add a separate (and optional) edit summary box for adding any applicable reason for reupload.

P.S. Keep in mind that this request was made in mind for any wiki community, not just the WMF family of wikis.


Version: 1.23.0
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz61317

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:08 AM
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Does this refer to the "classic" Special:Upload page or to UploadWizard or both?

Comment 0 sounds like "classic" special:upload personally.

Does UploadWizard even allow reuploading? I thought it just errors out on anything that shows a warning.

(In reply to Tisza Gergő from comment #3)

Does UploadWizard even allow reuploading? I thought it just errors out on
anything that shows a warning.

Ocassionally people seem to manage to do so. Im not sure how...

Definitely classic, this doesn't pertain to UploadWizard. Although the errors on reuploading for that is for another bug!

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:23 PM