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
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:11 AM, 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
This is why I prefer other sites to Commons to upload images to. Nowadays I only upload stuff if I need it for an article elsewhere. I used the tool once and it was useful.
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...
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
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...
If that's the case, then we have a huge problem. That's saying that we want to build this massive free repository of images, but we can't trust people to fill it up. Surely there are solutions, to allow us to quickly detect and repel "bad" uploads, while assisting those who make "good" uploads.
Steve