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

[geni]

2008/8/20 Chris McKenna <cmckenna at sucs.org>:
> 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

Okey I've put in a sort of fix. You can now select "I have a custom
license" in the license options (wording needs improving) and that
drops in a temporary template which can then be removed once the
upload is complete. system still needs some polishing mind.


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geni