https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421
--- Comment #53 from Chad H. <[email protected]> 2010-04-02 03:10:33 UTC --- (In reply to comment #48) > I don't think any of the objections from comment 45 or comment 47 are very > compelling. I disagree, I think they are rather convincing, and I pretty much agree with everything Mike.lifeguard and MZMcBride have said. > But I'm wondering what happens with non-image files. Should it be > impossible to tell videos from images from PDFs based on the names? You would > have no idea from looking at the wikitext source whether [[File:Foo]] is > including image or video or audio or maybe something else entirely. I think that's a rather compelling argument against it right there. (In reply to comment #46) > You're right that JPEG, GIF, PNG, & SVG simply are not the same, which is just > another reason why they don't need filename extensions anywhere, and certainly > not at their File:Name locales. That doesn't make any sense. I want to know what type of media I'm using. The extension helps convey that. I do see the annoyances of JPG vs jpg, but that could very be fixed by normalizing extensions to lowercase on upload, regardless of what happens here. I'm still not convinced of the overall usefulness of this though. -- 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
