https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421

MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #45 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2010-03-31 21:57:37 UTC ---
I'm not so sure about this.

Personally, my scripts often rely on the assumption that image.img_name is the
same as page.page_title when page_namespace = 6. I use this assumption to
generate reports of files without file description pages, file description
pages without files, and comparing enwiki_p.page.page_title to
commonswiki_p.image.img_name. I imagine there are other scripts on the
Toolserver and elsewhere that rely on a similar assumption. This change would
likely break these scripts.

I'm also concerned about naming conflicts. In bug 20971#c4, Brion suggests that
only non-conflicted image names would be stripped. Deliberate inconsistency
here doesn't seem like an ideal situation for editors or anyone else. Though I
suppose page text will be inconsistent for the rest of time if this change is
implemented anyway.

On an emotional level, stripping the file extensions feels wrong. A JPG simply
isn't the same as a GIF or a PNG or an SVG. Even users who are only adding the
file inclusion code to pages need to understand and appreciate that.

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