Sorry, got my examples confused. The general point about filename truncation is still correct.
Fae On 30/04/2014, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had an odd problem with files not being created, which I think I can > put down to how long filenames are handled by GWT. > > As an example, my xml specified (A) but GWT created (B): > A. File:Index Map No.2 of a part of Suffolk County. South Side - Ocean > Shore, Long Island. Part of Islip and Part of Brookhaven. Published by > E. Belcher Hyde. 97 Liberty Street, Brooklyn. 5 Beekman Street, > NYPL1633883.tiff (209 chars) (see link) > B. File:Index Map No. 2 of a part of Suffolk County. South Side - > Ocean Shore, Long Island. Easthampton. Published by E. Belcher Hyde. > 97 Liberty Street, Brooklyn. 5 Beekman Street, Manhattan. 1916. Volume > NYPL1633.tiff (206 chars) > > This seems an easy thing to warn the user about when reading the xml. > In terms of behaviour I would expect the tool to reject the xml as > malformed and warn about maximum allowed filename length, rather than > truncate the name, in this case truncation meant corrupting the unique > NYPL identifier. > > It would be better if GWT allowed the maximum title length that > Commons allows (240 bytes, the number of visible characters varying by > charset). > > I vaguely recall the Steering Committee discussing this last year, so > I'm unsure if this is worth raising in bugzilla. Suggestions? > > Links > 1. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_Map_No.2_of_a_part_of_Suffolk_County._South_Side_-_Ocean_Shore%2C_Long_Island._Part_of_Islip_and_Part_of_Brookhaven._Published_by_E._Belcher_Hyde._97_Liberty_Street%2C_Brooklyn._5_Beekman_Street%2C_NYPL1633883.tiff > 2. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30202 > 3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Filenames > > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
