On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:44:33 +0100, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/23/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is that it (obviously) isn't compulsary. There would be
no
untagged images if the upload only worked if you selected a tag. That
said,
we'd probably end up with spurious tags if we forced tagging...which
might
lead to more problems
Force tag, have a default {{untagged}}, purge everything with this agressively? Similar to David's article-boilerplate proposal, really...
That's a really good idea. Terribly simple.
Yeah, might be an idea to add a seperate required "source" field though. Unfortunately some people seem to have gotten the impression that as long as they don't use a "fair use" tag, source is optional. If not then at least make it impossible to upload an image with a blank "summary" field. Easy enough to bypass, but at least people can't claim they didn't know it was required when they come to complain about the image getting deleted.
Another idea, one that would require a lot more developer work than the above, but possebly save countless maintainance hours down the line is this:
Make a "upload wizard" type system, one that will walk first time uploaders though a multi step process and explain everyting carefully in bite sized chunks across multiple different pages starting with "choose the right format", moving on to "pick a good descriptive file name", then "spesify who the copyright holder is and where you got the image" then give a crash course in copyright law (you know the basics, stuff like "publicaly available is not the same as public domain", all rights reserved is the default if nothing is spesified, and "you can't claim copyright to a copy you made of a copyrighted work", explaining the difference between free and unfree licenses etc) and force the user to check a "I understand" box, to move on to the license selection before finaly allowing them to upload the image. After completing the toturial a couple of times the user would "graduate" and get the to the normal "all in one" upload form.