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Bug 34317 - Add "Special:UploadFile" alias for "Special:Upload" in MediaWiki


Summary:	Add "Special:UploadFile" alias for "Special:Upload" in MediaWiki

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Special pages (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Reported:	2012-02-10 05:31 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified:	2013-07-09 09:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description MZMcBride 2012-02-10 05:31:53 UTC

It seems reasonable that <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadFile> should redirect to <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload>. I just got slightly confused by this. The <h1> says "Upload file" after all.

Comment 1 JuneHyeon Bae (devunt) 2013-03-14 02:57:45 UTC

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/53716/

Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2013-03-14 09:40:59 UTC

["patch-need-review" is not meant for patches in Gerrit]

Comment 3 Alex Monk 2013-04-10 02:05:36 UTC

What's the point in this, considering Special:Upload has never been at Special:UploadFile (AFAIK) and is not just a spelling/case difference?

Comment 4 MZMcBride 2013-04-10 02:24:09 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> What's the point in this, considering Special:Upload has never been at
> Special:UploadFile (AFAIK) and is not just a spelling/case difference?

Sometimes aliases are simply for convenience. The <h1> is "Upload file", so having Special:UploadFile work (i.e., redirect to Special:Upload) didn't seem very unreasonable.

Comment 5 Siebrand Mazeland 2013-04-17 23:15:44 UTC

I agree with comment 3 and suggest this issue is closed as WONTFIX.

Comment 6 MZMcBride 2013-04-18 01:51:46 UTC

Hmm. Perhaps I'm the only person to visit "Special:Upload" manually? (And consequently sometimes I accidentally visit "Special:UploadFile".) Without stats, I guess we'll never know for sure whether this is common.

If this doesn't seem like a worthwhile Special page alias, I'm fine with this bug being marked resolved/wontfix.

Comment 7 Bartosz Dziewoński 2013-07-08 13:27:40 UTC

Yeah, I don't see the usefulness of "UploadFile" either. New aliases should probably be shorter versions of exiting names rather than longer ones.

Comment 8 MZMcBride 2013-07-09 01:47:02 UTC

Hmmm, maybe I'm the only one who goes to "Special:UploadFile". Mark as resolved/wontfix, then?

Comment 9 Bartosz Dziewoński 2013-07-09 09:53:43 UTC

I'm wontfixing this for now, then.

Comment 10 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-07-09 09:54:06 UTC

Change 53716 abandoned by Matmarex:
Alias "Special:UploadFile" to "Special:Upload"

Reason:
The bug has been wontfixed.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/53716

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