[Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

Mon Dec 12 17:37:46 UTC 2011

On 12 December 2011 15:26, K. Peachey <p858snake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nothing much went wrong in the planning of this feature,

Really?!

How is not having realised that this new feature would break 1000's of
images and preventing it not something going wrong in the planning?
(And yes, I mean "break" - they displayed correctly before and they
don't now, the fact that the EXIF data was corrupt isn't anywhere near
as important as how they actually display on the sites that use them.)

It was an innocent mistake and these things happen, but you need to
accept that it was a mistake and consider what you can do in future to
avoid such mistakes happening again.