Maybe Tims recent file managing upgrade already has a solution for this, but if not, here's my 2 pennies (I'm in the UK now, after all:-) * Make image pages movable (with the appropriate changes to the image table). * Replace the "404 error: File not found" error message for non-existant images with a script that checks if there's a REDIRECT page under that name in the database. * Return the new image if this is the case, and return 404 if not. This would be an improvement to the manual steps described above: * MUCH easier and faster to do * Preserves original upload/edit history * Direct links to the image keep working * No space waste due to deleted image * Cost : an additional redirect page, and an SQL query for requests of non-existing images To turn off this behaviour for an image, simply delete the REDIRECT page. (Seems so easy, I'm afraid I missed someting obvious at this point:-) Magnus

Recently, I have uploaded som eplant images to the commons. A few of these might have been incorrectly labeled. The current procedure for "renaming" them is #1 someone downloads the image #2 reuploads it under a new name, with the original description #3 fixes links on other wikimedia projects via chackusage #4 adds a "duplicate" template to the original image #5 the original image gets, eventually, deleted (unless it's an admin doing reuploading, who can skip #4) For a site managing >1.5 million files, IMHO this is a rather cumbersome process. Also, it leaves a (perfectly OK) image deleted on the server, thus duplicating that data. Maybe Tims recent file managing upgrade already has a solution for this, but if not, here's my 2 pennies (I'm in the UK now, after all:-) * Make image pages movable (with the appropriate changes to the image table). * Replace the "404 error: File not found" error message for non-existant images with a script that checks if there's a REDIRECT page under that name in the database. * Return the new image if this is the case, and return 404 if not. This would be an improvement to the manual steps described above: * MUCH easier and faster to do * Preserves original upload/edit history * Direct links to the image keep working * No space waste due to deleted image * Cost : an additional redirect page, and an SQL query for requests of non-existing images To turn off this behaviour for an image, simply delete the REDIRECT page. (Seems so easy, I'm afraid I missed someting obvious at this point:-) Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l