Board Thread:Announcements and Updates/@comment-4712589-20150603090819/@comment-4712589-20150606024133

Silicon Soldier wrote:

Sounds like a great idea! If I may ask, how exactly does it detect photos already on the wiki, given that the naming scheme of images on the wiki can vary wildly.

It'll get responses back from Wikia notifying the bot if there is a duplicate image. This could vary from image which already has that file name or the same image with a different file name.

Right now the bot will not bother uploading if it is already on the wiki with the same file name the bot would have uploaded too, or it'll move the duplicate image to a better file name.