On 18/01/2008, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:

Just writing to let folks know that on Commons we are developing some Javascript that add form elements to the upload page, instead of asking the user to use a template, to "fake" structured data. If the user doesn't have Javascript, it defaults to the plain normal form. It could be considered a model of what we would like the upload form to look like one day.

That's excellent! We should put this into place ASAP once it's definite it works on all reasonable browsers.

Needs the "other versions" field (I've been doing a lot of cropped versions of shots already on Commons), possibly automatically doing the right thing with the filename of existing Commons files - turning all of Example.jpg or Image:Example.jpg or [[Image:Example.jpg]] into [[:Image:Example.jpg]]. And leaving anything else (http:// links) alone. (What's JavaScript's regular expression performance like?)

Just flagging it here in case there are any performance-related things we should take into consideration.

Since it's using the client's CPU power, performance shouldn't be a problem - sanity-check for security, I expect.

Demo (you need to be logged in at Commons): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?withJS=MediaWiki:UploadForm.js Demo combing uselang hack: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?withJS=MediaWiki:UploadForm.js&uselang=ownwork The JS is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js (FYI, the add-category functionality is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js )

Suggestion: a properly internationalised version of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Article_to_Category that sends the user to an upload form with the category in place - I put it on the work intranet with vast success, but it's not properly internationalised and (obviously) would need to go to Special:Upload rather than creating an article with the cat preloaded.

- d.