[Commons-l] Bad experience of the new upload form

[Sandahl]

I had the same problems with my last upload. I finally picked the 
closest license from the drop down. When the upload finished I changed it
to the correct one manually.  It also told me to provide the original 
source which I had already done.  Finally it allowed the upload. FireFox 
2 and Vista upgrade here but  it should not matter what operating system 
we use, the drop down should  have an option like Chris says.
Sandahl


Chris McKenna wrote:
> I've just spent over 30 minutes uploading a file to Wikimedia Commons. The 
> excessive time was due to the new upload form.
>
> The image in question is 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stratford_station_360_-_August_2008.jpg
> I filled out all the sections of the form as it asked me to, but no matter 
> what I tried it would not let me upload the file, giving only the 
> unhelpful error "You must give the original source of the file, the author 
> of the work, and a license."
> I say unhelpful because I had filled in all of the noted fields - even 
> changing them from the default to see if that mad a difference, but nope.
> the only thing I can think of is that I hadn't selected a license from the 
> dropdown list, as I wanted to use my own custom tag 
> (user:Thryduulf/cc-by-sa-all) which wraps the standard cc template with a 
> note about my personal relicencing policy and categorises it in my user 
> category.
> If the permission box is set to check if the licence included in there is 
> one of a known set, then if it doesn't match say so in the error message.
> If the "none selected" license option doesn't let you upload the file then 
> you need to change the wording on it so that it doesn't imply you can and 
> give an option that says "I have added a license tag in the permissions 
> field above" that will let it upload.
>
> When I found the link to the old-style basic upload form (and remembered 
> how to use it) everything went swimmingly. I used the same information in 
> the manual form as I was trying to upload using the pretty form.
>
> I am using the latest version of Firefox 2 on 64-bit Kubuntu Linux.
>
> Chris
>
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