Last modified: 2005-06-25 13:57:29 UTC
on the wikimedia websites the shared upload dir is used to load images from commons. a newbie just went and uploaded an image to the en wikipedia that blocked out an image from commons. when this happens there is no easy way to deal with it (especilly as we can't move images). WORSE it may not even be noticed until much later by someone viewing a page on which the image from commons was being used. There needs to be at least a warning and possiblly more (maybe admin approval needed) before users are allowed to upload an image that clashes with one in the shared upload dir.
It's very easy to deal with it -- delete it! But yes, a warning might be nice.
i don't consider throwing away the local image (or reuploading it and losing its history in the process) to be a good way of dealing with this. not to mention the issue of untangling any links to the two images. in this case it was caught quickly and probablly won't be a major issue but the real cleanup problem comes if something like this goes undetected for a while.
(In reply to comment #0) > on the wikimedia websites the shared upload dir is used to load images from commons. > a newbie just went and uploaded an image to the en wikipedia that blocked out an > image from commons. > when this happens there is no easy way to deal with it (especilly as we can't > move images). WORSE it may not even be noticed until much later by someone > viewing a page on which the image from commons was being used. > There needs to be at least a warning and possiblly more (maybe admin approval > needed) before users are allowed to upload an image that clashes with one in the > shared upload dir. (In reply to comment #0) > on the wikimedia websites the shared upload dir is used to load images from commons. > a newbie just went and uploaded an image to the en wikipedia that blocked out an > image from commons. > when this happens there is no easy way to deal with it (especilly as we can't > move images). WORSE it may not even be noticed until much later by someone > viewing a page on which the image from commons was being used. > There needs to be at least a warning and possiblly more (maybe admin approval > needed) before users are allowed to upload an image that clashes with one in the > shared upload dir. Just a suggestion: information about the commons page could be inserted into the wikipedia image page, stating "this image is ''also'' available at commons, would you chose to use this instead?"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 889 ***
