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

[Sandahl]

geni wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thank you Geni!
>   
Sandahl