Sj wrote:
This looks great! Now we just need to have the form's text factored into separate site-specific messages and translated for other WPs... I don't know of a good place to announce such translation needs, so I created a section for it at [[meta:Translators#Translation Requests]]. Comments on that translation template would be appreciated.
Must there be a vote before this can be implemented? Has anyone suggested we not implement such a form?
Nobody on wikide-l has objected to the idea of having a form, and the response there was generally quite positive. Given the need for a form that requires source and license information, I haven't heard any objections to the basic idea and I'm not sure what reasonable objections there could be. If somebody wants to call a vote, they're welcome to, but I would say we already have a consensus on that much.
As to the exact details of the form, those can be worked out in our usual collaborative way. Somebody else later mentioned a model they had been working on (http://www.rainerzenz.de/wikitest.html), which has a radio button to choose GFDL or public domain, but no required source field. This doesn't help us meet the legal requirements for fair use images, so I think Andre's form is the basic outline we have to work from. Improvements are welcome, but the longer we delay, the bigger the backlog of inadequately documented images.
The text of the instructions given to uploaders, and the choice of which licenses to accept, are separate policy issues. There's no need to debate those just to get this form implemented.
I saw a couple reports of minor appearance issues with Andre's form, apparently browser-specific:
Mit Opera 7.20 überlappt das Bild und Teile der Navigationsleiste den Text:
http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~ebermann/vikipedio/upload-formular.gif http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/%7Eebermann/vikipedio/upload-formular.gif
A little bit of testing should be able to iron out these problems.
--Michael Snow