On 27/04/2014, Emmanuel Engelhart emmanuel.engelhart@wikimedia.ch wrote: ...
Do you see any other risk?
Yes.
* If a user has 10 files to upload they should use the well designed standard wizard. The GWT is an amazingly cumbersome way to upload small numbers of files.
* The GWT has a number of bugs and restricted features that would be very odd to explain to a user who was not part of a major GLAM upload project or had not had experience with batch uploads. For example xml validity testing is a complex issue and will never be covered by on-wiki step by step documentation.
* We have a small user group, if this were doubled by random interested users without skills to bring to the party, or involvement in large batch upload projects, it is highly likely that most of us more engaged folks would drift off into yet another clique.
In general, if anyone wanted to play with the tool, I would let them use the beta cluster to knock themselves out. I would encourage this approach as after playing around they might later come up with useful and interesting batch upload projects. At the moment we are have had very few requests to play with the tool on beta.
With regard to barriers, the bureaucrats are being a bit harsh, but we have to remember that the point of GWT is that it is designed to be an powerful tool with the ability to rapidly upload 10,000 or 1000,000 images, each of which may be up to 1GB. We want it to stay that powerful, not be re-designed to be small-upload friendly when there are several other tools and the upload wizard, to do precisely that and do it well.
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