On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Nick <heligolandwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I don't know how easy it would be to implement,
but I'd like to see an image
duplicate search at the point the file is uploaded, and the file not being
permanently saved on the Foundation servers if a duplicate already exists.
This would be very easy to do, if by "image duplicate search" you mean
"search for an exact byte-for-byte copy of the image". It was brought
up just yesterday on Wikitech-l and could end up in the software
within a week or two if someone feels like doing it.
If by "image duplicate search" you mean "search for similar images
that might be the same one in a different
format/cropped/rotated/different color depth/etc.", then that would
require a considerable amount of work, probably.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:13 AM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We can have new and old interface. People can choose
which one they prefer.
The new one would of course be the default.
If a new interface is introduced, it's unlikely that the old one will
be maintained. It's a waste of developer time to handle bug reports
and so on on two differently-coded interfaces when one would do.