[Bug 32660] File extensions for the same file type should not allow variations of a file name (File:X.jpg, File:X.jpeg, File:X.JPG should all refer to the same file)

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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32660

--- Comment #11 from johnnymrni...@gmail.com 2012-02-18 23:17:30 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I was thinking the second one too. The issue with the first one is if the
> software goes around replacing all cases of .jpeg with .jpg, it is going to
> have to find some way to deal with the existing naming conflicts, and I don't
> see how the software would do that without creating a mess. 
> 
> Sven

The easiest fix I could see is that the software wouldn't need to replace
anything except at the time of upload. If something called Foo.PIC is uploaded
and the software sees that it is a JPEG, it is named Foo.jpg. Then no other
image is allowed to be uploaded at Foo.***. So the software is actually
renaming the images to the normalized titles before they are fully uploaded.
The software wouldn't touch existing files, and existing conflicts would be
allowed. The only thing changed would be the file uploader and file moving.

This would NOT fix the problem, but it would be an easier stop-gap. .JpeG and
.JPG would still be allowed by the architecture, just no more would be created.

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