On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:43:56 +0200 Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
No. It is necessary that the image from Commons can be forced over an image with the same name in the local wiki.
Any reason that this must be necessary?
I can easily imagine that images in local wikis and Wikicommons have the same name. I want to be able to choose which one I want to use.
You can't avoid uploading images in Wikicommons with a name which is already used in a local wiki.
And if there has to be a default, it should be Wikicommons, I think.
I disagree. I think local is the better default, for several reasons: * It's easier for someone who uploads to a local Wikipedia to check whether there isn't a conflict than for someone who uploads to WikiCommons * The number of 'real' conflicts is smaller: If WikiCommons is the default, there is a problem every time someone uploads a picture with a title already used on WikiCommons. If local is the default, there is a conflict only if the WikiCommons picture is used on that specific Wiki. * When someone has made, for example, a translation of an image, they can upload it locally under the title of the existing image and be ready * When uploading an image locally with a title already existing on WikiCommons, we could automatically upload the Commons picture as an 'old version', making the existence of conflicts even more clear.
Also, it seems conceptually more logical - just like in object oriented programming when you define the same method on a parent and a child class, for the child class the 'local' version is taken rather than the 'global' (actually, reason #3 here has much the same feel as method overwriting in OO).
Andre Engels