Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: Upgrade to UploadCampaigns

For anyone using Campaigns for non WLM things. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:34 AM Subject: Upgrade to UploadCampaigns To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! As part of upcoming work to be done to support use of UploadCampaigns from Mobile, I've spent time rewriting the underlying infrastructure for UploadCampaigns. This has no changes for people who use UploadWizard to just ''upload'' images, but plenty of changes for people who administer and maintain campaigns. The most important changes are: * Campaigns are maintained by creating and modifying pages in a new Campaign: namespace. Special:UploadCampaign and Special:UploadCampaigns have been removed. * Pages in the Campaign: namespace have all the ''features'' of normal pages, and so have page history (solving [[bugzilla:30645]]), a talk page, can be watched/moved/deleted/undeleted, etc. * Full wikitext support in most fields - header/thanks labels (fixing [[bugzilla:39910]]) and in the field labels (solving [[bugzilla:39911]]). This should make customizations and internationalization simpler. * Arbitrary number of custom fields where the user can enter text while uploading, and such text is included in the uploaded image's description, are now supported (previously you were restricted to two fields) * As a negative, the GUI interface for configuring campaigns is now gone (temporarily). Currently the Campaign configuration is stored as [[:en:JSON|JSON]], which is edited by hand. There exists minimal validation so that corrupt data is not saved. A point and click interface would eventually be added at some point in the future. [[mw:Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns|Documentation]] for the current JSON format exists. This change is currently live on the [http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ commonsbeta] site, and can be tested there. This is on schedule to be rolled out to Commons on Monday, July 22 - unless large unforeseen bugs arise. Thanks to MarkTraceur, Odder and Brion for their help in getting this done! Special note for WLM: Since WLM is the biggest (almost only) user of campaigns right now, I'll be spending time to make sure that all the WLM campaigns work without issue. -- Yuvi Panda T Mobile Team, Wikimedia Foundation http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l