On 5/19/02 3:25 PM, "Axel Boldt" axel@uni-paderborn.de wrote:
Right now, any registered user can upload a file with the same name as an already existing one, thereby either unintentionally or deliberately overwriting and removing the original file. This will be recorded on the upload logs page, but not in the history of the page which contains the image. As a result, anybody who uploads images needs to keep local safety copies and needs to check from time to time to make sure that the file on the server is still the intended one.
I propose that we completely forbid the overwriting of existing uploaded files. If you have a new version of your image, give it a different name and change the link in the article. That way, the change will be recorded in the article's history, and the previous version of the image will still be accessible.
Sysops would of course still be able to remove any file.
But that's annoying if you want to update a file with a corrected version. There should be a better way.