https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35133
--- Comment #3 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2012-03-16 01:00:58 UTC --- Hmm, interesting. By the way, have you read [[mw:User:NeilK/Multimedia2011/Titles]]? Some of Neil's thoughts are quite similar to your own So basically what you're suggesting is another layer of indirection? I'm going to repeat back what I think you're saying to see if I understand. *User uploads a file. It becomes some random string (base 36 sha1 hash of its contents would perhaps be a good choice. So something like nw0i4k7agg53rak074baj2fqowrxmae *Somehow, user then associates the file they just uploaded with a "real" file name. So the user might associate nw0i4k7agg53rak074baj2fqowrxmae with [[File:Saskatchewan_Farm_Elevator.jpg]], and then could reference the image nw0i4k7agg53rak074baj2fqowrxmae by using the code [[File:Saskatchewan_Farm_Elevator.jpg]] in wikitext. Individual file pages would not be intimately associated with the file they represent, they're more like pointers to a specific file. Other file pages could also be associated with a specific file, a file page could be unassociated on a whim, etc. When thought that crossed my mind, is that we're slowly moving in the direction of file names being less permanent, but from the other direction (With features like moving of file pages). ----- >In fact, the only place where I think a descriptive file name is useful is when >looking at code, and you're trying to figure out what image the code is >describing. Indeed, the future direction of MediaWiki seems to be pushing away >from code as much as is practical, into the Visual Editor and WYSIWYG editing That's still quite a long way off. And even then, I (personally) have my doubts on how much it will be accepted by old timers. I think it will result in a mix, where a stubborn portion (to pull numbers out of my hat, I will guess 10%) will still use the wikitext. ---- >Each "version" could have an incremented >"file name" that is optionally used in the [[File:...]] syntax "template" call >if a specific version is desired. If a specific version is not desired, simply >omit the version number, and the most recent (highest numbered) "version" is >automatically used. Even as the system is right now, it might be useful to have syntax like [[File:SomeFile.png|version=20100101111310]] which would reference a specific version of an image. (and I believe such a change would be relatively simple) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
