On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
This is really a Commons question, but...why is so little effort made to promote bulk upload tools like Commonist? I've wasted countless hours struggling with the crappy web forms, when it's so easy to do using the right tool. None of the upload pages make the slightest mention of these tools. Is this by design or just not thought out?
Steve
As with most such things, it's surely the latter. But do we want to encourage mass uploads? I thought people were already rather unhappy with so much fair use and copyvios and poor quality uploads (these were the cited reasons for not moving all non-fairuse on en to Commons), and promotion of tools would necessarily encourage use by non-savvy users...