SelectFileWidget: Remove MIME type information
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	Volker_E
	Aug 12 2016, 11:00 PM

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MIME type (example as of v0.17.7: image/png) featured in SelectFileWidget is a very technical information that might be meaningless or confusing to majority of our users.

T142883 Remove MIME-type info OOjs UI Demos 2016-08-12.png (499×662 px, 71 KB)

MediaWiki theme already hides it in the single-line widget.

We should remove it completely.

An additional side-effect would be that we can easier address T127267: SelectFileWidget has no visible label on IE 11

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	SelectFileWidget: Remove MIME type information	oojs/ui	master	+0 -23

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T134670: SelectFileWidget: Improve the thumbnail area (size, image appearance)
Mentioned Here: T115860: Show image thumbnail in both steps of mw.ForeignStructuredUpload.BookletLayout
T127267: SelectFileWidget has no visible label on IE 11

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Volker_E created this task.Aug 12 2016, 11:00 PM

Volker_E mentioned this in T134670: SelectFileWidget: Improve the thumbnail area (size, image appearance).

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Volker_E updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 12 2016, 11:06 PM

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Volker_E updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 12 2016, 11:12 PM

Citing @Pginer-WMF

I'd be more in favor of removing it. Exposing users to the MIME concept or making the effort of translating the mime strings into human-friendly text is probably not worth it.
For some context on how this control was intended to be used you can refer to T115860#1745586

Change 304586 had a related patch set uploaded (by VolkerE):
SelectFileWidget: Remove MIME type information

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/304586

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 12 2016, 11:32 PM

Volker_E raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Aug 12 2016, 11:33 PM

Volker_E moved this task from Backlog to Review on the UI-Standardization-Kanban board.

Volker_E moved this task from Backlog to Reviewing on the OOUI board.

Volker_E added a subscriber: RHo.

Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T133245: SelectFileWidget inconsistencies (overlong filenames, smaller images than thumbnail area, differences in no-browser support ones).Aug 15 2016, 6:16 PM

Can we make it a config (showMime) that defaults to false?

Volker_E closed this task as Resolved.Aug 23 2016, 11:18 PM

Volker_E removed a project: Patch-For-Review.

Volker_E moved this task from Review to Done on the UI-Standardization-Kanban board.

Volker_E edited projects, added OOUI (OOjs-UI-0.17.9); removed OOUI.Aug 23 2016, 11:20 PM

Change 304586 merged by jenkins-bot:
SelectFileWidget: Remove MIME type information