https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18011
Summary: Special:FileDuplicateSearch user interaction is utterly
baffling
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FileDuplicateSearch
?filename=Elephant_Mud_Bath.ogg
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Special pages
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
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
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