Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-45310000-20200418011510/@comment-9605025-20200418160459

The spaces v. underscores issue is a matter of how MediaWiki deals with page titles. It is not specific to the file namespace. Since my last post, I thought of two more points; one in favor and one against.
 * In Favor - Removing the extensions would make it easier to auto-generate file links. I assume this is what got you thinking about it. This is actually an issue I have on the wiki I admin. We can't automate the image placement because we don't know which format it will be uploaded as.
 * Against - Having the extension in the name allows users to quickly identiy the type of file when looking at lists of page names. Is it a video, image, audio file, or something else?