[WikiToLearn Tech] The problem with lowercase files

[Davide Valsecchi]

Hi,

This problem was completely fixed renaming images and correcting filenames
in the wikitext. Now the first letter of files is capitalized.  Sorry for
the late report.

Bye
Davide

Il ven 25 mar 2016 17:00 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> ha scritto:

> Hi all,
>
> recently (in the past month or so) we decided to allow people to upload
> images
> whose name starts with a lowercase letter.
>
> This seemed an innocuous change, but there is a nasty bug with OCG, namely,
> something in the chain of software that leads to the generation of PDFs
> expect
> all files to start with an uppercase letter. With the current setup,
> whenever
> a lowercase image is inserted, OCG either picks a random file from
> Wikimedia
> commons, or displays nothing at all. The web version shows images the right
> way, so the user doesn't notice the bug until the PDF is downloaded, and
> this
> leads to inconsistencies.
>
> I see two ways out of this:
>
> 1) (best way) we tame and fix the OCG bug, this requires some coordination
> to
> find out whether it's in the latex writer, in the bundler, in Parsoid, in
> Mediawiki Core, a configuration or in the Collection extension
>
> 2) we comment out the line which allows this behiavour
> ($wgCapitalLinkOverrides[ NS_FILE ] = false;), we run a bot to change the
> names to all uploaded files on pool and to fix all the references in the
> website (it's many changes, but it should be easy enough to do), dropping
> the
> support for lower-case images. Note that this leads to a slightly
> inconsistent
> behiavour, if the user wants to upload a file by inserting in the text a
> lower-cased red link first (she will create the link, upload the image
> (which
> will automatically get capitalized), come back to the document and figure
> out
> the "link" is still broken).
>
> This is a rather urgent issue as users are complaining a lot about this,
> and
> it's very hard for them to understand what is going on. What route would
> you
> like to follow?
>
> RFC Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T1937
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo
>
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