On 29/06/07, Tim Starling tstarling@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.
I got a response from 4 users about this, who all said that the page could be done without. One suggested that for overwriting, just one line could appear at the top of the image page as notification.
Perhaps something similar to what seems to now be happening with adding/removing watchlist items could be used? (MediaWiki:addedwatchtext appears at the top of the page you added, instead of having the intermediate page which said something like "page has been added to your watchlist".)
cheers Brianna