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Description

Management of multimedia files in the core MediaWiki software itself, including:

  • File backend (see also SRE-swift-storage for tasks about the actual server serving files in Wikimedia project, upload.wikimedia.org)
  • File repositories.
  • Media handlers.
  • Thumbnail generation (but not on Wikimedia wikis, see Thumbor instead)
  • Misc display handling (File description page, Special:ListFiles).

Parent project: MediaWiki-General

For uploading, see MediaWiki-Uploading.

Recent Activity

Yesterday

Platonides added a comment to T374235: File page missing for files uploaded by uploadwizard.

Yep, those file pages do not exist (as such, it got no license, etc.) Happen from time to time, no idea why. There were some bugs in the past.
However, these files were uploaded on 5 September 2024, so whatever bug is probably still there.

Thu, Nov 21, 11:50 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, UploadWizard

Wed, Nov 20

Pppery removed a project from T23824: Special:MergeHistory does not merge file history: Commons.
Wed, Nov 20, 6:12 PM · MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-MergeHistory

Tue, Nov 19

Prototyperspective added a comment to T54647: MediaWiki images and image pages are not being indexed properly by external search engines.

This problem also exists for DuckDuckGo. Also videos on Commons are not shown in the videos tab of search engines. I don't think there is any other as important Commons issue. See Community Wishlist proposal Do something about Google & DuckDuckGo search not indexing media files and categories on Commons with 3 concrete things that could be done.

Tue, Nov 19, 5:41 PM · Commons, SEO, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-General
Aklapper placed T310453: Show SVGs in page view language for language variants if available up for grabs.

@Winston_Sung: Removing task assignee as this open task has been assigned for more than two years - See the email sent to task assignee on October 11th.
Please assign this task to yourself again if you still realistically [plan to] work on this task - it would be welcome! :)
If this task has been resolved in the meantime, or should not be worked on by anybody ("declined"), please update its task status via "Add Action… 🡒 Change Status".
Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Assignee_cleanup for tips how to best manage your individual work in Phabricator. Thanks!

Tue, Nov 19, 5:25 PM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), MediaWiki-Language-converter, Chinese-Sites, Commons, I18n, MediaWiki-File-management, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, MediaWiki-Parser
Peachey88 removed a project from T380250: Undeleting only files gives an error message but works: Commons.
Tue, Nov 19, 8:00 AM · MediaWiki-Page-deletion, MediaWiki-File-management
Maintenance_bot added a project to T380250: Undeleting only files gives an error message but works: Commons.
Tue, Nov 19, 6:30 AM · MediaWiki-Page-deletion, MediaWiki-File-management
Pppery updated the task description for T380250: Undeleting only files gives an error message but works.
Tue, Nov 19, 6:14 AM · MediaWiki-Page-deletion, MediaWiki-File-management
Pppery created T380250: Undeleting only files gives an error message but works.
Tue, Nov 19, 6:13 AM · MediaWiki-Page-deletion, MediaWiki-File-management

Mon, Nov 18

Peachey88 removed a project from T380231: License template in metadata: Commons.
Mon, Nov 18, 10:14 PM · XMPReader, MediaWiki-File-management
Reedy added projects to T380231: License template in metadata: MediaWiki-File-management, XMPReader.
Mon, Nov 18, 9:29 PM · XMPReader, MediaWiki-File-management
Maintenance_bot added a project to T380190: Template used in information->description causes wrong image description to be returned from API: Commons.
Mon, Nov 18, 5:30 PM · CommonsMetadata, Commons
Aklapper added projects to T380190: Template used in information->description causes wrong image description to be returned from API: Structured-Data-Backlog, MediaWiki-File-management.
Mon, Nov 18, 4:51 PM · CommonsMetadata, Commons

Thu, Nov 14

Pppery moved T70575: Make "Special:UnusedFiles" appear like "Special:ListFiles" from Maintenance reports to Multimedia-related on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.
Thu, Nov 14, 6:44 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages
HLHJ added a comment to T54647: MediaWiki images and image pages are not being indexed properly by external search engines.

Some users, including me, browse and edit with Javascript turned off sometimes. It drastically reduces your bandwidth. On a slow connection, everything is faster, and on an expensive one, everything is cheaper. So I strongly prefer a solution that doesn't discriminate against people with worse internet access, by making it harder for them to get metadata on an image file.

Thu, Nov 14, 4:38 AM · Commons, SEO, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-General

Tue, Nov 12

Umherirrender merged task T196040: A MWException occurred when access index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/星耀晨曦&a[] into T321471: MWException: HTML attribute value can not contain a list of values (in Special:ListFiles).
Tue, Nov 12, 9:42 PM · MediaWiki-File-management
Peachey88 removed a project from T379593: Allow image resizing using em (fontsize-relative) units: Commons.
Tue, Nov 12, 4:47 AM · MediaWiki-File-management
Maintenance_bot added a project to T379593: Allow image resizing using em (fontsize-relative) units: Commons.
Tue, Nov 12, 4:30 AM · MediaWiki-File-management
Pppery added a project to T379593: Allow image resizing using em (fontsize-relative) units: MediaWiki-File-management.
Tue, Nov 12, 4:28 AM · MediaWiki-File-management

Sun, Nov 10

Pppery edited projects for T367482: Cannot move file on Commons (Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError), added: MediaWiki-File-management; removed MediaWiki-Page-rename.
Sun, Nov 10, 8:55 PM · MediaWiki-File-management, Wikimedia-Slow-DB-Query, Wikimedia-production-error, Commons
Chealer updated the task description for T40010: RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis.
Sun, Nov 10, 6:00 PM · Proposal, Thumbor, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering

Fri, Nov 8

MGA73 added a comment to T372719: New special page to see local files that override Commons' files.

At some point I made a script as a test to see if it was possible to locate files also on Commons. It started as a one-time-run on a tiny wiki. Then another one... I also tried it on a larger wiki like uk.wiki that have 115 k files. It works but you have to configure it manually for each wiki and I imagine that it creates some traffic on the server so it should pobably not be run too often.

Fri, Nov 8, 2:29 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages
MGA73 added a comment to T372719: New special page to see local files that override Commons' files.

There are two different problems mentioned here as I understand it:

Fri, Nov 8, 1:17 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Nemoralis merged T379344: Create a Mediawiki Category or a special page to list local files that are also on Commons into T372719: New special page to see local files that override Commons' files.
Fri, Nov 8, 9:33 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Nemoralis merged task T379344: Create a Mediawiki Category or a special page to list local files that are also on Commons into T372719: New special page to see local files that override Commons' files.
Fri, Nov 8, 9:32 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management
Maintenance_bot added a project to T379344: Create a Mediawiki Category or a special page to list local files that are also on Commons: Commons.
Fri, Nov 8, 9:30 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management
Andriy.v created T379344: Create a Mediawiki Category or a special page to list local files that are also on Commons.
Fri, Nov 8, 8:41 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management

Sun, Nov 3

Midleading added a project to T132921: Unable to delete file pages on commons: MWException/LocalFileLockError: "Could not acquire lock": MediaWiki-File-management.
Sun, Nov 3, 8:23 AM · MediaWiki-File-management, Multimedia, Commons, MediaWiki-Page-deletion

Thu, Oct 31

Pppery removed a project from T90300: Suppressed username shown on File pages: MediaWiki-Core-Snapshots.
Thu, Oct 31, 4:02 PM · Security, Security-Team, Commons, Vuln-Infoleak, Datasets-General-or-Unknown, MediaWiki-Revision-deletion, Multimedia-Sprint-2015-03-25, MediaWiki-Action-API, MediaWiki-File-management, Multimedia

Wed, Oct 30

gerritbot added a project to T360589: De-fragment thumbnail sizes in mediawiki: Patch-For-Review.
Wed, Oct 30, 11:00 PM · Patch-For-Review, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, Data-Persistence
gerritbot added a comment to T360589: De-fragment thumbnail sizes in mediawiki.

Change #1084920 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alistair3149; author: Alistair3149):

[mediawiki/core@master] Use smallest size in wgThumbLimits for file history thumbnail

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1084920

Wed, Oct 30, 11:00 PM · Patch-For-Review, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, Data-Persistence
gerritbot added a comment to T90300: Suppressed username shown on File pages.

Change #609798 abandoned by Reedy:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add img_deleted column

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/609798

Wed, Oct 30, 2:15 AM · Security, Security-Team, Commons, Vuln-Infoleak, Datasets-General-or-Unknown, MediaWiki-Revision-deletion, Multimedia-Sprint-2015-03-25, MediaWiki-Action-API, MediaWiki-File-management, Multimedia

Mon, Oct 28

Maintenance_bot added a project to T370188: mw-datatable tables overlap UI: Commons.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:30 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, Trust and Safety Product Team, MediaWiki-Special-pages, Design
Maintenance_bot added a project to T18280: Special page based on MediaWiki:Shareduploadconflict: Commons.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:30 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Pppery added a project to T370188: mw-datatable tables overlap UI: MediaWiki-File-management.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:23 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, Trust and Safety Product Team, MediaWiki-Special-pages, Design
Pppery added a project to T317058: Add an "Inverse select" button for media types to Special:NewFiles: MediaWiki-File-management.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:22 AM · MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages, Commons
Pppery added a project to T10588: Include regular page links when determining unused images: MediaWiki-File-management.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:22 AM · MediaWiki-Special-pages
Pppery added a project to T157200: Special:NewFiles button label in mw 1.29 when wgMiserMode = true; is unintuitive: MediaWiki-File-management.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:17 AM · I18n, Design, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Pppery moved T18280: Special page based on MediaWiki:Shareduploadconflict from SpecialPage system to Multimedia-related on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:10 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Pppery added a project to T18280: Special page based on MediaWiki:Shareduploadconflict: MediaWiki-File-management.
Mon, Oct 28, 3:10 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Sat, Oct 26

Maintenance_bot added a project to T14992: Add new setting option switch whether case-sensitive or case-insensitive upload file extension name checking.: Commons.
Sat, Oct 26, 5:30 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Uploading
Maintenance_bot added a project to T164304: Contents of category 'Pages with broken file links' aren't automatically updated after links point to existing assets: Commons.
Sat, Oct 26, 5:30 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Parser-Templates
Pppery edited projects for T164304: Contents of category 'Pages with broken file links' aren't automatically updated after links point to existing assets, added: MediaWiki-Parser-Templates, MediaWiki-File-management; removed MediaWiki-Categories.
Sat, Oct 26, 4:46 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Parser-Templates
Pppery edited projects for T272239: It took >40 days for a File: page on Commons to show in "Category:Pages with broken file links" after file deletion, added: MediaWiki-Parser-TrackingCategories; removed MediaWiki-Categories.
Sat, Oct 26, 4:43 PM · MediaWiki-Parser-TrackingCategories, WMF-JobQueue, MediaWiki-Page-deletion, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons
Pppery edited projects for T14992: Add new setting option switch whether case-sensitive or case-insensitive upload file extension name checking., added: MediaWiki-File-management; removed MediaWiki-Special-pages.
Sat, Oct 26, 4:32 PM · Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Uploading

Fri, Oct 25

Pppery removed a project from T378161: cleanupImages.php treats storage paths as local file paths: Commons.
Fri, Oct 25, 2:41 AM · MediaWiki-File-management
Maintenance_bot added a project to T378161: cleanupImages.php treats storage paths as local file paths: Commons.
Fri, Oct 25, 2:30 AM · MediaWiki-File-management
aaron created T378161: cleanupImages.php treats storage paths as local file paths.
Fri, Oct 25, 2:05 AM · MediaWiki-File-management

Thu, Oct 24

Jonathanischoice added a comment to T40010: RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis.

I also wonder if we're trying to do much. It's already evident we don't have enough engineering resource to move some of these tickets. If the goal is to serve SVG files to be rendered in the client, then we should probably stick to SVG 1 and if there are weird text issues, then it is incumbent on the uploader to fix - use a common font, convert text to shapes, etc. I'm just an punter not an employee, so maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the overall scope is ultimately to provide vector diagrams to illustrate an encyplopædia. Maybe we don't need to get too fancy :) It sure would be nice to have SVG music snippets T49578 for example, some time this decade.

Thu, Oct 24, 10:31 PM · Proposal, Thumbor, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering
Chealer added a comment to T40010: RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis.

but resvg's loss of Yevhenii Reizner, who had been doing about 9/10 of the work from the beginning, is a serious threat to its future

Funnily enough, when I've started working on resvg around 2017, librsvg was dead/abandoned for more than a decade, which was one of the reasons behind resvg creation.
And like a year later, 2018ish, librsvg authors started a rewrite to Rust, which revitalized the library.

Thu, Oct 24, 5:12 PM · Proposal, Thumbor, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering
RazrFalcon added a comment to T40010: RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis.

but resvg's loss of Yevhenii Reizner, who had been doing about 9/10 of the work from the beginning, is a serious threat to its future

Thu, Oct 24, 4:26 PM · Proposal, Thumbor, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering