| Nnemo | |
| Jan 30 2016, 7:43 PM |
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| May 19 2019, 9:55 PM |
I go to the page http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/file
I see many files, with their size, in "KB".
There is no such thing as a "KB".
This has to corrected into one of these:
Thank you.
Nnemo
[Edit:]
I choose a file. I click File Info.
The issue also occurs here.
Nnemo
The spell check that is used by Firefox recognizes KB as valid, however, it does not recognize KiB.
Related thought: There should be a #pedantic tag for tasks like this one.
The upstream is exceedingly unlikely to change this. Although "KB" is not a technically precise unit, it is widely understood by users and is the unit used by both MacOS ("KB" in "Size" column) and Windows ("GB" in "Disk Space" readout) to identify filesizes:
In almost all contexts, normal users do not care (and do not make decisions differently) if "GB" means 1,000,000,000 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes and the distinction is ultimately irrelevant.
Generally, we are eager to trade away pedantic technical correctness to serve almost any other goal (ease of use, familiarity, simplicity of implementation, etc), and are very unlikely to make changes which serve only pedantic correctness concerns.
Thanks for the feedback, Evan!
We don't plan to maintain a downstream patch for this either, hence closing as declined.