https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15676
Rocket000 <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #6 from Rocket000 <[email protected]> 2009-11-05 21:40:40 UTC --- It shouldn't be "forbidden" (at the very least admins should be able to override it if needed), but a nice little warning would be nice. I hate when upload logs are filled with identical versions because the uploader simply picked the wrong file name (e.g. the original version again instead of the new one). Or they, for some unexplained reason, revert to the same version multiple times in a row. It happens more than you'd think. Sure, user carelessness/inexperience is at fault here, but software can help. Actually, I don't know why something like that isn't already in place for duplicates in general. One of my favorite features of Bryan's Flickr uploader is it tells you if the file is already uploaded (doesn't always work, but 95% of the time in my experience). There's been a couple times I uploaded an image directly (after doing a reasonable search on Commons) only to find out afterword we already have it thanks to the automatically-generated duplicate link provided on the description page. It's like, oh, thanks for letting me know ''now''. What we want to do is help prevent accidental duplicate uploads, not intentional ones. So even if the hashes get corrupted and the system fails, what, .1% of the time?, it's ok since a human makes the final call. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
