Hi all,I just uploaded a file with the new upload wizard and I tried to see Romaine's problem but couldn't.
As I see it, this is simply a copy of our current upload wizard, with the monument ID field added. Is this correct? If so, I miss the storyboard, which I suppose is our responsibility to create. Or are we not going to include a WLM storyboard for the WLM upload?
My other issue is with the confusing pre-selected field about "I, [name], the uploader...", since the license is part of our basic instructions I really don't think we need to bother about this at all. We want to cut out every non-necessary step, since each extra step means the potential loss of a WLM uploader. This field appears edittable, and it should not even be shown at all. Everything for WLM is CC-by-SA 3.0, and if not, well, sorry about that mistake, but who cares? Theoretically these mistakes will eventually be picked up by somebody in the normal "Wikimedia Commons way".
I like it that you can add extra categories in the upload wizard, but I am asking myself if this is really necessary, since we will autocategorize everything. As others have pointed out, the more experienced users can always click on the file and add categories with hotcat, or even use Commonist. The category structure on Commons is confusing at best, and I really don't want to send our WLM participants down that road at all.
What I really want to know is if the category check is done immediately for the number; because otherwise, what happens to those wrong numbers? I think the user should be offered a chance to say "Yes, this is town X" or at least "Yes, this is country X". It is also nice for the user to have some kind of confirmation that the file is eligible for the contest, since the two useability links produced at the end do not indicate this at all.
Jane
2011/8/20 Siebrand Mazeland
<s.mazeland@xs4all.nl>
> I have too little time for this and I am already overworked. I expect
> when I use an uploadwizard that it makes it more easy for me to upload,
> this uploadwizard makes it harder with less possibilities and no easyness
> at all what I should expect from a "wizard". Just cutting the uploadform
> in pieces doesn't make it easier. It has also been made more difficult
> with too much intollerance.
>
> For now my last reply in this subject, I just wanted to make clear that
> the current wizard isn't working as it should be for an official contest.
> I hope an adjusted normal uploadform would be available just as it was
> with the edition in 2010.
>
> Greetings - Romaine
It's too bad that you are not making an effort to point out exactly what
is wrong, but are stating it does not meet your expectations or standards
twice, that are, mind you, not written down anywhere.
Without clarification, your objections are unsubstantial.
Siebrand