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

[David Gerard]

2008/8/20 Daniel Schwen <lists at schwen.de>:

> The key mistake is reducing the new upload form to one single
> adjective: "obtrusive" (that makes my stomach cramp up).
> The new upload form was not invented to torture people, it was invented to
> guide newbies (who will certainly not know how to opt-in anywhere!) through
> the upload process and make them provide the necessary information that had
> been omitted so often in a structured way (which burdened commons with lots
> of cleanup and avoidable deletions).


Indeed. Supplying anecdotal evidence here, I have a friend who found
the old form - where you fill in the information template yourself -
BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE, and the new form quite easy. n00bs like it; the
experienced may have more problems without "do it my way" options.


- d.