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Bug 33285 - MediaWiki should warn when creating file redirects to foreign file repo files
MediaWiki should warn when creating file redirects to foreign file repo files
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-12-20 22:03 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2011-12-20 23:49 UTC (History)
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Description MZMcBride 2011-12-20 22:03:42 UTC 
If you create a local file redirect ("#REDIRECT [[File:Real file on a foreign repo.svg"), there's no warning to the user that this won't work. File redirects must be created on the same wiki as the target file.

For example, I went to create a file redirect on the English Wikipedia for a file that's hosted on Commons. It took me a minute to figure out why the redirect wasn't working properly. Ideally, there should be a warning when a user goes to create the redirect.
Comment 1 Chad H. 2011-12-20 22:05:45 UTC 
Wouldn't it be better to fix bug 18248 rather than warning about the behavior?
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2011-12-20 22:17:10 UTC 
Yeah, it should work fine. If it doesn't work, that should be fixed. Warnings would make no sense here.
Comment 3 MZMcBride 2011-12-20 23:49:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Wouldn't it be better to fix bug 18248 rather than warning about the behavior?

For one reason or another, I had difficulty finding that bug.

I also wasn't quite sure that local redirects working for foreign files was completely sane. But, ideally, yes, just working® would be better than throwing warnings. I added myself to the CC list of the other bug.
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