https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32426

[email protected] changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |
           Severity|enhancement                 |major

--- Comment #6 from [email protected] 2011-12-29 20:23:21 UTC ---
Reopening. I was forced to upgrade to 2.3.2 when 2.2.1 was having problems with
MediaWiki 1.18, so I can't ignore this issue anymore. In 2.2.1 I could work
around the problem by hiding the upload field to discourage unintended
overwriting of semantic data, but magic words don't work very well in 2.3.2:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32883
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33418

Both of those bugs appear to be unrelated to each other, but they are both
probably caused by a similar approach to handling magic words. Of course, the
magic words are just useful in a programmatic workaround for this bug32426.
Semantic Forms should handle this automatically.

Here's an example (login Demo/test):

http://www.coincompendium.com/w/index.php/File:Vulture.jpg

If you click Edit with form, you will see an upload field that used to be
hidden with my form code, using magic words:

http://www.coincompendium.com/w/index.php/Form:Image

If the user is confused about whether they're editing an image or adding a new
one, and upload a new one as well as changing the semantic data, the semantic
data will be changed for the EDITED image and the CREATED image will have no
semantic data applied. 

Essentially, Semantic Forms does not function in this case, so in addition to
reopening the bug, I have increased the severity to "Major". I did not choose
"Critical" because the problematic consequences of the bug only occur when the
user is confused about whether they're editing or creating a file. That can
easily happen if the user thinks they can upload more than one file using the
same image upload field. Aspects of that are addressed in at least two separate
bugs:

SF allows multiple file uploads with a single form field
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32424

Support multiple page creation for batch file uploads. (Would be helpful in
many other cases too)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32824

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