Last modified: 2005-03-29 02:53:36 UTC
there are two nasty entries on http://wa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sipeci%C3%A5s:Unusedimages&limit=500&offset=0 i heared about theese in #mediawiki on irc the one currently at position 253 has a name that contains a single byte with a value above $7F which is not valid utf-8 this was apparently created by uploading from a windows 95 box the image is actually there but the image description page link gives a bad name error. i don't have win95 handy to test with. i tried and failed to reproduce this with win98 second edition (with the supplied version of IE5 this is the oldest version i have handy) and a local 1.4 test wiki the one currently at position 256 has a totally blank name clicking on the dirct image link gives a forbidden page from the uploads webserver. clicking the description page gives a bad url error. This one was apparently created by clicking upload without selecting a file. i tired to reproduce this with a local 1.4 test wiki and just got an empty file error someone needs to clean up theese existing ghost images and make sure there are sufficiant utf-8 paranoia checks that similar issues can't happen again.
These are due to old MediaWiki 1.3 bugs, so you shouldn't be able to reproduce the problem with new uploads in 1.4. The first one was also uploaded as http://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imådje:Rou-dle-miroe.jpg , looks like the same file. I've removed the bogus record with the bad name as it's redundant. The second one I've also removed. Empty name records were generally due to submitting the form with a bad local file reference so there was no file.
