[Wikipedia-l] Re: Upload page

Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu
Thu Jul 18 20:02:43 UTC 2002


Presumably Daniel Lee Crocker wrote:

>There is no longer a description field on the upload form--just
>a summary field for the upload, intended to describe the upload
>(which might be one of many revisions, for example), not the image
>itself.  There is now a whole page dedicated to each image for that
>purpose, and there's a link to it on the page that reports a
>successful upload, but I suppose it would probably be a good idea
>to put some more text reminding uploaders to actually put
>something there.

Given that each revision may be from a different source,
I think that it's entirely appropriate to have a Source field
in the information for the individual upload.
And encouraging people to think of the source is probably never a bad idea.


-- Toby Bartels
   toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu



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