On 6/17/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/17/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Given the number of files (about 650k in Commons now) and their wild and crazy filenames this might not be totally feasible, but we can hope.
Speaking of wild and crazy filenames, would it be possible to force some basic naming scheme on incoming files, such as at least making the extensions lower case?
This would stop one of the primary causes of duplicate uploads we see on enwiki, where people upload Foo.JPG and then it doesn't work when they [[Image:Foo.jpg]], so they click on it and upload Foo.jpg.
I'm close to beginning a campaign on enwiki to advocate removing the upload link entirely, forcing people to upload by following a redlink because even if we only count fair use tagged images there are around a thousand never-used images uploaded per week.