[Commons-l] Professional photographers on Commons: sucess story

[Brianna Laugher]

On 07/11/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a number of other improvements that could be made. For
> example, the notices that we give people could be made to sound more
> friendly and personal, and less like a parking tickets. But I think
> that ultimately it comes back to the software:  If we won't accept
> people uploading without identifying the author (a good thing!)  then
> we should have an upload form that makes such mandatory information
> actually mandatory.

What are the difficulties with doing that? What's stopping that happening?

Leaving aside the structured-data thing (in the belief that it's not
going to happen anytime soon), could we superficially improve the
upload form?

Say, use Javascript to create form elements (text fields) for the
various bits of {{information}}, and then do some Javascript warning
if you hit 'Upload' but haven't filled one of them out?

Also, would this really solve anything? If you make fields mandatory
don't people just lie to get past them? (which is kind of where we're
at now.) After all you can require someone to fill out a field but you
can't technically require someone to tell the truth (or even care).

cheers
Brianna

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