Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 4/3/07, Platonides wrote:
A good method, but... How would we now when it
came from the site
users? It's almost impossible.
Not at all impossible, it would just take a little work. We setup a
landing page they they direct their upload to commons link to, ... it
sets a cookie indicating the site they came from (either one landing
page per site, or grab the referrer. Make upload grab the cookie and
stuff it in the database someplace..
I think that this would be very useful data even among our own
projects. SUL will reduce the need for it internally, but it would
still be useful with instantcommons.
I thought on it, but i found several problems:
-Most wikis will also allow local upload, not only commons.
-Upload instructions will say something like "You need to upload to
Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org" ie. they won't provide
an esoteric extra parameter.
-Even if they provide, some people will go directly, not getting the
cookie / not providing the referrer.
-Asking to provide their local wiki url won't be popular.
-Some sites will have several wikis, wanting to use it on all (eg. a
local wikia and wikia central).
However, i like the idea of having a "landing page" where we can give
information to InstantantCommoners (commons scope, licenses, delays...),
set cookies, etc.