On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.orgwrote:
This is interesting. I'm going to look more into what you've been doing over the weekend. But in the meantime I have a related question.
I've been working (quietly) on Multimedia Usability, and one major issue with the whole design of multimedia on mediawiki, IMO, is the unity of storage filename, URL, and title.
Since you've gone halfway there, how hard would it be to break these dependencies entirely?
This work is definitely a step in that direction, and probably not too much more dev work to go all of the way. The test/bugfix cycle is what worries me the most, for reasons that probably are the same for any feature in this area.
Decoupling the filename from the URL/Title would involve not only storing file extensions in the database, but full filenames, which would result in a few more megabytes of database space on commons. There's been quite a bit of debate in Bugzilla since yesterday about the database modifications and the merits of the feature generally: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421#c51
Also, I want a pony.
Not before I get my unicorn.
Rob