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Allow uploading newer version of an existing file through IA upload
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Currently IA upload does not allow to upload new version of an existing file, which is important to replace files with missing pages, low quality books etc.

IA upload can provide a warning that file with similar name already exists on Commons and would we want to proceed to upload a newer version of the same file.

For example, this file is better quality scan than this file on Commons, which needs to be replaced.

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But those are different files scanned from different sources. পথের পাঁচালী.djvu is not even originally from Internet Archive.

It is probably better to upload it with a different name and potentially attempt to get the other removed from Commons later if appropriate.

It should also be noted that uploading a new version of a file on Commons requires specific permissions if you are not the previous uploader. I am not sure how IA-Upload should handle such situations (if it supports this type of feature at all).