[Bug 32660] File extensions for the same file type should not allow variations of a file name (File:X.jpg, File:X.jpeg, File:X.JPG should all refer to the same file)

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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32660

--- Comment #5 from Sven Manguard <svenmangu...@gmail.com> 2011-11-27 03:05:01 
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(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Thanks. A few technical issues to resolve:
> > 
> > 1) If this is implemented, will it be implemented for all projects or just 
> > for
> > English Wikipedia at first?
> 
> Depends on the implantation, but I would imagine this would apply to all
> projects. This doesn't sound like something that a config option would be
> appropriate for.
> 
> > 2) Will there be a grandfather clause built into the change, so that only 
> > files
> > uploaded after the change is made will be effected, or will there be no
> > grandfather clause?
> 
> It's unlikely we would fix this is a non-backwards compatible way. MediaWiki 
> is
> not just used by Wikimedia folks. We also have to make sure this doesn't break
> files on non-Wikimedia wikis where they wouldn't be aware of the change.

In all honestly, as long as the answer to 2 was "yes there will be a
grandfather clause", the answer to 1 could be anything at all and it would be
fine. (The vice versa is true as well; as long as it only applies to English
Wikipedia, we don't need to grandfather things in, because I can get the old
instances fixed, and other projects can do the same when they fix their
issues.)

I'm going to start working on the English Wikipedia LDFNs again. If you give me
an expected date for this task to be completed, I can rouse others right before
that comes up.

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