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Rename a TIFF file (.tif) on Commons. The extension is automatically changed to .tiff
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:An_Arkansas_Hoosier_born_in_1855,_Conway,_Arkansas,_8b32429.tiff&diff=prev&oldid=862009596
Is this a new behavior ?
All file types in Mediawiki have a ‘preferred’ file extension, and a preferred mimetype, next to allowed ‘allowed’ aliases.
.tiff (lowercase) is the preferred file type for tiff files and always has been. We also have .webm. 3 letters were a restriction of DOS that for various reasons was also a restriction in early versions of Windows, but limiting to 3 letters luckily is no longer needed (but by that time .jpg was already the preferred extension over jpeg).
It might be possible that some sort of ‘normalization’ is done when a destination filename is chosen, but im not aware of this being an automatic behavior. Will have to check later.
Tested locally. This is not a standard behavior, it takes whatever you put into the destination field name.
For me, the extension is changed to .tiff all the times:
etc.
Maybe it’s a commons gadget ?
Unfortunately it seems im no longer allowed to move files on Commons, so i cannot check there
I gave you the file mover right for one month. You should request it on Commons to have it permanently.
Thx
Looks to me like it is an issue with the gadget.
Here it takes the mime-type and uses that to infer a file extension..
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-AjaxQuickDelete.js#L-1273