On 07/04/12 15:53, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Theuploader is truly painful, is the 10 image limit definitely hardcoded or is it just a bug that makes the whole thing crash if you try and load more than ten images?
No crash. I think the "Add another file" button disabled itself after adding 10 files. I'm not seeing this limit now, though. It may have been lifted.
One of the changes that would make the uploader more helpful would be to have some metadata that you could put into the batch and which would then replicate itself on every image. If you are uploading a batch of photos about one monument then you might well have taken them all on the same day, want to put them all in the same categories and even have a common sentence or two to start every description in the batch. Of course if it was done in a way that made it even slower or more likely to crash then we'd be back where we are now.
Yes, I've been considering that. If you have a group of images of the same monument, you want the monument id and base description replicated automatically. However, you might also have several unrelated images, or two groups of monuments. I don't know how to make those different usecases into a UI.
As it is I'm struggling to justify putting images onto Commons when it is so much easier, and more reliable to bung them on Facebook. I suppose I'm insufficiently masochistic for the Commons uploader.
Can you describe Facebook uploader? What makes it easier? How is it more reliable?
Thanks