UploadWizard rejects uploads with file names that are prefixes of existing file name, treating them as if they were duplicates
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	matmarex
	May 16 2016, 2:59 PM

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UploadWizard rejects uploads with file names that are prefixes of existing file name, treating them as if they were duplicates.

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	mw.DestinationChecker: Don't generate false positives for matching prefixes	mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard	master	+10 -4

Mentioned In: T135799: Difficulty with image upload wizard on Commons
T135841: Naming problem at audio file upload

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Change 289133 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
mw.DestinationChecker: Don't generate false positives for matching prefixes

Change 289133 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.DestinationChecker: Don't generate false positives for matching prefixes

This bug has been fixed and the fix will be deployed to Commons next week, on Wednesday, 01 June 2016, according to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap.