https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46741
--- Comment #2 from David Richfield <davidrichfi...@gmail.com> --- I got there from [[Special:Upload]] - specifically by typing the required filename into the address bar and clicking on "upload" The reason to relax the restriction is that we often create svg diagrams based on other filetypes (most often .jpg, .gif and .png) - very many national flags, scientific diagrams and charts are made that way: an initial uploader supplies a file in a non-vector format, which is then transformed (often after a request at [[:en:WP:GL/I]]) to an SVG file. Both files still need to be kept (at least for a while): at first they need to be compared to make sure that the vector diagram is a faithful rendition, and sometimes later a PNG version is made offline in Inkscape because the automatic PNG versions (made with librsvg) don't render faithfully. See for example [[:File:Steroidogenesis.svg]] and [[:File:Steroidogenesis.png]]. They coexist without problems. Under what circumstances would a name collision occur? All the preview images are prefixed with "(number)px-" I'm also not the only one to see this problem. See for example the discussions at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum#Upload_gleicher_Name and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk#Can.27t_upload_an_SVG_version_of_a_PNG -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
