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Local categories rather than Commons's are prompted in the upload media dialog
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Inserting an image using the VE insert media tool from mediawikiwiki, I found an autocompleted category "Mediawiki Manual". On Commons, no such category exists.

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Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Different categories available in VE insert media dialog vs. commons upload wizard to Local categories rather than Commons's are prompted in the upload media dialog.Oct 20 2015, 7:06 PM
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Woooow this is incredibly super stupid.

@Prtksxna is probably not around now, and we want this quickly, so I'll write a patch and he can merge it tomorrow. ;)

matmarex raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Oct 20 2015, 10:06 PM

This turned out to be much worse than I expected. A lot of code here assumed the local wiki.

Change 247762 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Provide category suggestions from the right wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247762

Change 247762 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Provide category suggestions from the right wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247762

Change 247886 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Provide category suggestions from the right wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247886

Change 247886 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Provide category suggestions from the right wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247886

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