On 05/14/2014 01:54 AM, Gergo Tisza wrote:
the Multimedia team is preparing to collect data to better understand usability problems with UploadWizard.
Good.
UW has a "checkout" structure
Yes. But is this a given fact, or something that might change? It feels very monolithic, very un-wiki, very un-collaborative. Sometimes I want to unload my camera, so I can go out and capture more images, but I'm not ready to do all the detailed categorization. And perhaps others can help with that work anyway.
The UploadWizard is still better than the old upload form. But it's not entirely "wiki" (quick, collaborative, publish first, edit later). So how much energy and resources are we spending on making it slightly better, rather than designing something very different?
Some of the UploadWizard's convenient operations, like renaming or categorizing or editing the description of a whole group of images would be very nice to have after the upload. It would be similar to running a bot for recategorization, but built into the wiki interface. If you separate these operations from the upload, the upload would shrink to "unloading the camera", and you would have fewer interrupted/abandoned uploads.