Last modified: 2012-04-12 13:59:49 UTC
Apparently the behavior of the red linked thumbs has changed http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rome&oldid=181221673#Universities Includes an image thumb since deleted. The thumb shows a redlink, leading to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload?wpDestFile=MinervaSapienza.JPG wpDestFile is an argument to Special:Upload of course, not Wikipedia:Upload. Also, a second problem is that for editors it is now impossible to see the file history of that page. It should probably only ever link to the upload interface, if a file by that name did not exist at any point in time. For editors, the description page for that file is very hard to reach now for instance. You have to manually copy paste the image title and navigate there. I also note that the "magnify" icon is not available in these thumbs.
(In reply to comment #0) > Apparently the behavior of the red linked thumbs has changed > See bug 18885. Previously it used to point to local Special:Upload, which was not desirable in all cases. If I recall correctly, the only change is that it now actually follows $wgUploadNavigationUrl. Do you suggest to change this behaviour?
Actually what seems to have happened is that Special:Upload no longer shows a warning when a page was deleted. To quote from VP/T "Up until a week or two ago, whenever I clicked on a deleted image link (i.e. a red link that links to the "File" namespace), it would lead me to WP:UPLOAD as it does now, but below the page's title, there would also be links to deletion logs for the image, on both Wikipedia and the Commons."
Based on comment #2 it sounds like a regression, key-wording as such (+code-update-regression)
Either 1) the log excerpt should be shown on WP:UPLOAD or 2) wpDesiredDestname should propagate to Special:Upload. I'm not sure what is the proper way to fix this issue.
Instead of going to Wikipedia:Upload, if red linked images went to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Foo.png instead, that would fix the problem, at least on en.wikipedia.org, since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext shows the deletion logs when wpDestFile is set in the URL.
(In reply to comment #4) > Either 1) the log excerpt should be shown on WP:UPLOAD or 2) wpDesiredDestname > should propagate to Special:Upload. I'm not sure what is the proper way to fix > this issue. Or we could of course revert and WONTFIND bug 18885.
Yuck, this is all very messy as there are a lot of conflicting assumptions being made and broken. Under the assumption that a red link should point you to the place you can make that link blue (or create the image), and the assumption that $wgUploadNavigationUrl points to the page you can upload at, everything is fine. I imagine this is the case almost everywhere. What this bug seems to assume is that a redlink takes you to the place that a deletion log is visible - which is conveniently enough the same as the place you upload on Wikipedia (but not everywhere? - perhaps that should be fixed also?). Wikipedia importantly breaks the assumption that $wgUploadNavigationUrl points to a place you can upload - not sure the best way to fix that and still let the upload button at the left hand side work as Wikipedia wants - probably to define yet-another configuration variable specifically for that left-side link (that defaults to $wgUploadNavigationUrl), or create a simple extension/javascript hack that allows wpDestFile to be used on WP:Upload
Please read my comment here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18885#c9 On wmf wikis (and self-hosted wikis aswell, especially when using Commons or when using a step-by-step upload proces such as wikipedia's Wikipedia:Upload and commons' Commons:Upload, the $wgUploadNavigationUrl variable is used for that. Which is fine, because it's the 'navigation' url. It points to the page where one should navigate to to start a new upload. Which is by default directltly the upload-page. But almost all major wikis have changed this to an inbetween step. But those links are not for uploading directly, which is what is is been (ab/re)used for since bug 18885. Read further there.. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18885#c9
Introduced $wgUploadMissingFileUrl in r69997. Once deployed, wikis can decide for themselves what desirable behaviour is.
This behavior was again changed for 1.19 by r92598
