Last modified: 2013-07-25 17:03:26 UTC
Currently when you visit <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MIMESearch>, you get a form that looks like this: --- This page enables the filtering of files for their MIME type. Input: contenttype/subtype, e.g. image/jpeg. MIME search MIME type: [ ] [Search] --- However, this feature has apparently been disabled. So no matter the user input, you get an error (from <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MIMESearch?title=Special%3AMIMESearch&mime=image%2Fjpeg>): --- This page enables the filtering of files for their MIME type. Input: contenttype/subtype, e.g. image/jpeg. This special page is disabled for performance reasons. --- This is brain-dead behavior. Don't give a user an input form that doesn't work. When a user loads <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MIMESearch>, it should simply say: This page has been disabled due to $wgMiserMode or whatever. The current behavior of "sure, input your MIME type... just kidding!" is wrong.
lol, I suppose this is what I get for shooting my mouth off in irc... :P
Note, related bug 13438
Oh look this is assigned to me. Didn't even realize. However I would prefer that my fix to bug 13438 gets accepted and this gets WONTFIXed instead ;)
If you don't plan to work on this one, feel free to unassign. :)
(In reply to comment #4) > If you don't plan to work on this one, feel free to unassign. :) Well I plan to work on it by turning it from a bug into being INVALID, but nonetheless unassigned.
WONTFIX - bug 13438 got merged, which makes this bug no longer applicable.
