Last modified: 2007-03-20 17:30:57 UTC
When transferring images on commons from other projects a lot of people forget to upload the fullsize version (and sometimes they ask for deletion of original afterward leading to lost of the fullsize original image). Moreover, if someone upload the fullsize version, it can lead to a duplicate entry, thing that should be avoided in any database. Mediawiki should be configurable to disallow uploading of this kind images. The software should then detect the leading prefix for scaled down image /[0-9]+?px-/ and warn the user he have to get the fullsize image from the original wiki. It may be a simple javascript as temporary warning, but some users would probably just change the name field to circumevent the protection. Maybe upload image, compute an hash of it, warn the user, and prevent uploads of this image for the next 24 hours.
see also bug 3089: Warning when uploading images like 600px-foo
*** Bug 3089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 3822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
They stuff up categories and such as well.
nice idea
Is this request a request for "Product" 'MediaWiki' and "Component" 'UploadingÄ or for "Product" 'Wikimedia' and "Component" 'General/Unknown'?
marking as dependend of Bug 2532: Image filenames in the form 123px-Something.jpg are not reserved
Not a dependency, that's a dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2532 ***
Nobody at bug 2532 has proposed disallowing images named 123px-foo. That bug is about the fact that the thumbnail directory migration was done in a buggy way, so that thumbnails weren't properly generated for images named 123px-foo. I'm going to reopen this bug, unless someone wants to address *this actual issue*, which has to do with human error when transferring images to the Commons, at bug 2532. (I agree that this bug doesn't depend on bug 2532; the two issues are independent.)
The summary on 2532 is wrong then. Ah well, marking it FIXED and this WONTFIX.
Guess what: marking a bug as WONTFIX without any explanation is a great way to piss people off, and scare away potential contributors. Is there any reason behind the WONTFIX declaration? I've reopened bug 3089, which proposes at least having a *warning* when people try to upload these thumbnails. I think disallowing the upload entirely would be better, though.
It doesn't seem to be something that actually needs to be done, since there's no longer any technical reason to prevent such uploads. I've marked 3089 as a duplicate of this seems it seems to be *exactly* the same issue stated in slightly different terms.
not only commons needs this feature. in de.wp there were on November 18th 213 of these 123px-images, mostly transferred from en.wp: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:BLueFiSH.as/Datenbankabfragen/px-bilder&oldid=10917420 I have removed some, but there are still many pictures that need to be cleaned up, (with a transfer to commons): http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:BLueFiSH.as/Datenbankabfragen/px-bilder&oldid=12002837 It would help really to minimize the effort for the "cleaning brigade" by disallowing 123px-images!
(In reply to comment #13) > It doesn't seem to be something that actually needs to be done, since there's no > longer any technical reason to prevent such uploads. It's a people issue, not a technical issue. As FoeNix wrote in the first comment, when moving an image to the Commons, "people forget to upload the fullsize version (and sometimes they ask for deletion of original afterward leading to loss of the fullsize original image)". See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_uploaded_at_reduced_resolution for example. All of those images are going to have to be replaced by hand. If MediaWiki had prevented their upload in the first place, with a helpful message about uploading the full size version instead, a lot of effort could have been saved. What is needed is a configuration option to allow disabling these thumbnail uploads. I know the Commons would want to set that option; German Wikipedia might too.
Ah, ok I see. Sorry, my mistake. Reopening. I would be inclined to keep it a warning rather than a strict disallowing, but a warning should do the job.
Rather than a special feature for this, why not have an "image blacklist" giving a list of restricted regular expressions, which displays a system message when the blacklist is matched? It could pass the matched regexp and the filename as parameters to the system message. Then people could easily configure the server to do this and many other upload restriction tasks.
(In reply to comment #16) > I would be inclined to keep it a warning rather than a strict disallowing, > but a warning should do the job. Implemented as warnings in r20563.
