Yeah, I was meaning a byte-for-byte identical. There's often reasons why very similar files exist, such as a crop to focus on one celebrity in a cast line up, with both photos being uploaded, that sort of thing.
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2008/5/30 Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Nick heligolandwp@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@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.
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