Hm, I'm not sure what would stop users just guessing and hitting 'back' a lot to get through it. And what questions would we ask? That would be the hardest bit. (Well, maybe collecting all the translations would be the hardest...)
I had an idea which would hopefully achieve a similar outcome, that we could introduce "throttled" or "reviewed" uploads. Once a user uploads say, 5 files, an admin has to review the files before they can upload any more. If they made any mistakes, they stay on reviewed upload. If they didn't make any mistakes with licensing, they can go onto unreviewed upload (what we have at the moment).
No idea if it would be even remotely technically feasible, though.
Brianna
On 16/06/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimedia Commons is a very important resource, but it also has policies which many people will find difficult to understand. They cannot just upload whatever they want, they have to provide full source information, and they should have at least a basic understanding of licensing.
Many ideas have been mentioned here to somehow limit uploads by first timers. One that I haven't heard mentioned is to require every new user to go through some interactive tutorial process that explains the basics. How could this be done?
- Create a new permission for uploading.
- Any user who doesn't have the permission, and tries to upload, is
presented with the tutorial. 3) Once they have completed the tutorial, they receive the permission.
On the implementation level, it seems that this can be done as an extension which a) hooks into the upload process and checks whether a user has the permission, b) displays a set of pages from the MediaWiki: namespace (important so the tutorial can be localized using the "/de", "/en" .. subpage syntax), each of them with a "Previous"/"Next" button. Only when a user has viewed the final page in the sequence, they would be given the upload permission.
All existing users (except sysops) would have to go through the process as well.
Future refinements could include interactive questions/answers about copyright issues. As for bots, bot status has to be set by bureaucrats anyway, so these could also give bots the upload permission.
Does this idea make sense? If it works for Commons, a simplified version might even be useful for each individual Wikimedia project.
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