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All operations that deal with primary data (article text and file content) should be atomic; is something fails, the original state should be restored. This is currently not the case for files, which can get lost on rename or delete/restore (which is all the more scary given that they are no image dumps so they often cannot be recovered). This should be improved. Some examples of data loss: * {T17430} * {T37367} * {T41615} * {T71311} * {T72416} * {T111838} * {T131020} * {T147040} * {T179884} **See also:** * {T160229} ([[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Commons#Backup_of_Commons_files|meta discussion]]) * {T53001}

All operations that deal with primary data (article text and file content) should be atomic; is something fails, the original state should be restored. This is currently not the case for files, which can get lost on rename or delete/restore (which is all the more scary given that they are no image dumps so they often cannot be recovered). This should be improved. Some examples of data loss: * {T17430} * {T37367} * {T41615} * {T71311} * {T72416} * {T111838} * {T131020} * {T147040} * {T179884} * {T198177} **See also:** * {T160229} ([[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Commons#Backup_of_Commons_files|meta discussion]]) * {T53001}

All operations that deal with primary data (article text and file content) should be atomic; is something fails, the original state should be restored. This is currently not the case for files, which can get lost on rename or delete/restore (which is all the more scary given that they are no image dumps so they often cannot be recovered). This should be improved. Some examples of data loss: * {T17430} * {T37367} * {T41615} * {T71311} * {T72416} * {T111838} * {T131020} * {T147040} * {T179884} * {T198177} **See also:** * {T160229} ([[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Commons#Backup_of_Commons_files|meta discussion]]) * {T53001}