On 27.04.2014 15:15, Fæ wrote:
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.
This is not a risk. Let people choose the tool they prefer.
- 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.
All our tools have bugs (think to the uploadWizard) and many of them are not easy at all to use. As far as I know, this was never an argument to limit artificially their usage.
It's possible that we still need to wait a little more to fix the most critical bugs before doing this, but then we should IMO setup now the list of show-stoppers.
Anyway, if we want to increase the GWT bug fixing speed, we should increase the GWT audience. It's a basic rule of FOSS development.
- 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.
I believe that people are not idiots. Most of them will keep using the uploadWizard because it's what they need and a few others will learn what they have to learn to use the GWT, they are not less skilled or more stupid than GLAM's employees.
Emmanuel