Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-27494008-20160911214544/@comment-452-20160913182912

Thanks for the clarification!

I also like to keep the contribution history for images, so I also hate how it can't carry over with different filetypes.

The reason behind it is that mediawiki has type-checking to ensure that people aren't uploading viruses disguised as images, so the extension has to match the type. So there's an error if you try to upload a doc as a pdf, and there's also an error if you try to rename jpg to png.

I just discovered one interesting thing you could do, but probably isn't worth it.


 * Step 1: before uploading the new image, delete the old image.
 * Step 2: Undelete the page, but not the image itself. (The undelete page has them clearly marked)
 * Step 3: Rename the page. Because the image is still deleted and no longer associated with the page, there's no move error.
 * Step 4: Upload the new image with the name of the renamed page. (You can click the upload link on the page, or just name the file with the same name)
 * Step 5: View the File page history, and see the previous contributor listed.

This doesn't show the old image in the file history, only the page history, and that user's contributions.

But it's a lot of effort, so you may not want to bother with it.