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

Yann Forget yann at forget-me.net
Wed Aug 20 12:42:14 UTC 2008


Patricia Rodrigues wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> You can go to Your preferences -> Gadgets  and then tick the first line 
> ("Use the old-style upload form layout."), that way you shouldn't have 
> any problem. You can direct any bug reports and suggestions to Lupo 
> (<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lupo>), who has worked 
> very hard to make the form work smoothly and continues to patiently 
> tweak it everytime someone complains about it :).

The new upload form is quite good if you have files which match one of 
the proposed licenses (no custom licenses), so I would not disable it 
completely. I just want to have the choice.
I had the same problem which Chris had for uploading {{PD-India}} images.

> Cheers,
> Patrícia

Regards,

Yann
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