Hi Multimedia fans,
You're probably aware that nearly two months ago, we deployed a cross-wiki upload tool [1], available in VisualEditor (via Insert → Media → Upload) and wikitext editor (via image icon → Upload). The plan to develop it was originally announced on this list [2], but it seems that we neglected to mention that we actually did it :) (it was in Tech News, though).
You might not be aware that it was used to upload over 44 thousand of files to Commons so far – unfortunately, it turns out that people really don't care to read what they agree to, and many of the uploaded files proved to be copyright violations. I guess we should've foreseen that.
Starting tomorrow, we'll be running an A/B test of four different interface options, hoping to find one that maximises good uploads while minimizing bad ones. You can read more about it (there are screenshots!) at [3] and the corresponding Phabricator task T120867 [4].
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_upload [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-June/001062.html [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/December_2015_cross-wiki_upload_A/... [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120867
Nemo, I encourage you to check out the interface of this tool (there are screenshots in the documentation I linked). It appears to me that the concerns you're reiterating mostly don't apply, and this test is meant exactly to resolve the ones that do.
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