[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] On upload forms

[Simetrical]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I don't know how easy it would be to implement, but I'd like to see an image
> duplicate search at the point the file is uploaded, and the file not being
> permanently saved on the Foundation servers if a duplicate already exists.

This would be very easy to do, if by "image duplicate search" you mean
"search for an exact byte-for-byte copy of the image".  It was brought
up just yesterday on Wikitech-l and could end up in the software
within a week or two if someone feels like doing it.

If by "image duplicate search" you mean "search for similar images
that might be the same one in a different
format/cropped/rotated/different color depth/etc.", then that would
require a considerable amount of work, probably.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:13 AM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> We can have new and old interface. People can choose which one they prefer.
> The new one would of course be the default.

If a new interface is introduced, it's unlikely that the old one will
be maintained.  It's a waste of developer time to handle bug reports
and so on on two differently-coded interfaces when one would do.