On Nov 6, 2007 8:24 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yeah. Looking at his talk page makes me sad -- the usual round of scripted & stacked image deletion warnings for copyright reasons. We need socially more appropriate ways to deal with copyright issues.
This is one of the reasons I've advocated that add a realtime web chat feature. New user education should be handled in a human-to-human real-time manner as much as possible. We probably do not have the resources to handle all cases and all users this way, but especially for the newest users we should make an effort.
There are a number of other improvements that could be made. For example, the notices that we give people could be made to sound more friendly and personal, and less like a parking tickets. But I think that ultimately it comes back to the software: If we won't accept people uploading without identifying the author (a good thing!) then we should have an upload form that makes such mandatory information actually mandatory.