On 29/06/07, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
Formerly, the user only got this page if they
were overwriting an
existing file, and ordinarily they would be taken straight to the new
image page. Now it comes up if the file is being uploaded for the
first time.
I've changed it back to the previous behaviour now. But are we sure we
don't just want it to redirect all the time? We don't display a success
message on page edit, do we? Presumably the same applies here, the user
can see in the file history that their file has been uploaded correctly.
It seemed as if the success message only came up on image overwriting.
Thus we used the message to confirm with the uploader that they
intended to overwrite another file. If people use a common filename
(apples.jpg) and click 'ignore all warnings' they wouldn't know they
had overwritten another file. (Steve was right in pointing out that
the 'spaces have been changed to underscores' warning is quite
useless. I often check 'ignore all warnings' to avoid this. Perhaps
other experienced users do too.)
It might also be useful to use the 'successful upload' message to
convey the fact that overwriting-uploading only overwrites files, not
image page descriptions.
So, in conclusion, I don't know. :) I can ask what people at Commons
think about it, though.
cheers
Brianna
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