https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32423

--- Comment #1 from [email protected] 2011-12-08 20:54:59 UTC ---
I just discovered another related problem. Users that like to upload files from
an URL are trying to enter in the URL into the upload field without clicking
the upload link first to upload the file. It's resulting in pages like this,
containing useless data:

http://www.coincompendium.com/wiki/index.php/File:Http://honestsilver.com/CoinPhotos/3552444-004f.JPG

In addition, the user is confused, and unsure what went wrong, so they end up
either not uploading anything, or they use the link that says "No file by this
name exists, but you can upload it." - which results in a file being uploaded,
but not connected to its semantic data, so it is essentially "lost" forever,
with no way to match it to its data. If I can't figure out which file goes with
what semantic data, I have to delete it all, and hope the user is willing to
try again.

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