[Commons-l] Good words for upload form from formerly frustrated prospective user

[Cary Bass]

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David Gerard wrote:
| 2008/8/1 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
|> 2008/8/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
|
|>> Quick Guide for How To Upload Your Own Pictures:
|>> 1. Create a Commons login. Say something about yourself on your user
page.
|>> 2. Upload your stuff. Pick one of the "Own work" options.
|>> 3. Fill in some categories, etc. (wikitext, same as on Wikipedia).
|>> Would that be worth putting in above or in place of one of the huge
|>> walls of text presently on the upload form?
|
|> Nope adding further text to the page is hardly going to help matters.
|
|
| Well, yeah. Can any of the tl;dr be removed? I realise instruction
| creep only works upward ...

I agree with this.  We want to make things simpler, less complicated,
not more complicated--I realize our admins have a tough time combating
copyvios, but a determined copyvio person is going to ignore anything we
throw at them and upload anyway--we want to make it easier on the
regular person!

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