On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:26:23AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: # Sam Rowe wrote: # >Another thing that always confused me about the mediawiki upload process is # >that you're prompted to enter a description and then the "success" page's # >"blobby paragraph" includes an example that contains your filename, but not # >your description. That seems like an easy fix! Should I file a bug? # # No, that doesn't make a lot of sense. You'd see stuff like this: # # [[Image:SumatraMap.jpg|Map of [[Sumatra]], version as of 2005-04-11. # Taken from http://foo.bar.baz/maps/asia/, marked as public domain. # {{Public domain image}} # # I modified the legend to make it more legible and remove the scanning # errors, and did a threshold to reduce the number of colors for better # compression. # # TODO: Replace with cleaned-up SVG version.]]
Aah, perhaps the Description field should be made into a textarea then? On my private wiki, I almost always use the same description when uploading as when marking up.