On 29/06/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
Formerly, the user only got this page if they were overwriting an existing file, and ordinarily they would be taken straight to the new image page. Now it comes up if the file is being uploaded for the first time.
I've changed it back to the previous behaviour now. But are we sure we don't just want it to redirect all the time? We don't display a success message on page edit, do we? Presumably the same applies here, the user can see in the file history that their file has been uploaded correctly.
It seemed as if the success message only came up on image overwriting. Thus we used the message to confirm with the uploader that they intended to overwrite another file. If people use a common filename (apples.jpg) and click 'ignore all warnings' they wouldn't know they had overwritten another file. (Steve was right in pointing out that the 'spaces have been changed to underscores' warning is quite useless. I often check 'ignore all warnings' to avoid this. Perhaps other experienced users do too.)
It might also be useful to use the 'successful upload' message to convey the fact that overwriting-uploading only overwrites files, not image page descriptions.
So, in conclusion, I don't know. :) I can ask what people at Commons think about it, though.
cheers Brianna