On 14/09/12 11:37, Mike Dupont wrote:
Well, For me the goal is to collect media about the area under a commons license. I am not interested in teaching people to read, because most of them dont. there is just too much text on commons for people to read, they dont understand or have the patience. It is not the commons suck, it is just at too high a level for the users that I am dealing with. We have tried to get translators, it is just too much for them.
we can discuss this later, as I said I dont have time pressure, i am working on the apis right now, and i just wanted to know if anyone has a good upload solution.
Have you taken a look at the Upload Campaigns we are using for WLM? Eg. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=wlm-es
You will find a much nicer flow.
I tried to get people to upload to commons at our bootcamp http://kosovoinnovations.org/yap/digital-bootcamp and it failed, we had IP blocking of new users, we had the uploader failing, it was horrible and a waste of time.
You can request in advance an higher account creation limit if you are going to host a workshop. If you have a sysop there (which can be quite useful), they can also bypass it.
Ok, did you try running a workshop with 20 people in kosovo over a slow internet connection? for single people it is fine maybe, but we need to have a fast local server. I am looking to get hosting on the local backbone.
If you want to get many people to upload photos (eg. the results of doing a Wiki Takes) and you have just a small upstream bandwidth, I'd just collect them in a single system (eg. one folder per participant) and have the organization upload them later.