Hi,
I had an odd problem with files not being created, which I think I can
put down to how long filenames are handled by GWT.
As an example, my xml specified (A) but GWT created (B):
A. File:Index Map No.2 of a part of Suffolk County. South Side - Ocean
Shore, Long Island. Part of Islip and Part of Brookhaven. Published by
E. Belcher Hyde. 97 Liberty Street, Brooklyn. 5 Beekman Street,
NYPL1633883.tiff (209 chars) (see link)
B. File:Index Map No. 2 of a part of Suffolk County. South Side -
Ocean Shore, Long Island. Easthampton. Published by E. Belcher Hyde.
97 Liberty Street, Brooklyn. 5 Beekman Street, Manhattan. 1916. Volume
NYPL1633.tiff (206 chars)
This seems an easy thing to warn the user about when reading the xml.
In terms of behaviour I would expect the tool to reject the xml as
malformed and warn about maximum allowed filename length, rather than
truncate the name, in this case truncation meant corrupting the unique
NYPL identifier.
It would be better if GWT allowed the maximum title length that
Commons allows (240 bytes, the number of visible characters varying by
charset).
I vaguely recall the Steering Committee discussing this last year, so
I'm unsure if this is worth raising in bugzilla. Suggestions?
Links
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_Map_No.2_of_a_part_of_Suffolk…
2.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30202
3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Filenames
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