2014-12-15 11:40 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru:
On 2014-12-15 10:30, svetlana wrote:
In addition to the fact that the search sucks, and other issues mentioned here earlier, there are some issues with Commons.
- Unlike Imgur, it doesn't have a big -- and useable -- "upload"
button on the homepage. I know about media freedom, yet for sharing of photos I made, Commons is not the choice. There is a big multi-page form to fill in, — both the upload wizard and the special:upload page. I see uploadwizard as the tool with bigger potential for fixing this.
svetlana
Actually, for sharing photos - do we have an html code generator for an image or other means to share an existing photo similar to what flickr has? Would it be easy to produce if we have none? Or may be there are some trivial ways to share it I am not aware of?
Yes, we do. I see it above the picture, but it's JS generated, so depending on your settings you might or might not see it.
2014-12-15 11:04 GMT+02:00 geni geniice@gmail.com:
On 14 December 2014 at 18:27, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
My reading is that your replies have a very defeatist outlook. And it feels a bit like simple laziness ("everybody does this and we can't make messages less awful because it's just too harrrrd"). There are a few clear problem here and they're regularly hurting us. So one way or another, we need to find acceptable short-term and long-term solutions. Instead of being defeatist, we need a willingness to try and try again. :-)
En does. As and when they crack it we can export it to commons.
Why should we assume that only en.wp can provide good results? If anyone on this list feels his/her project's messages are better, the right way to do would be to start from that language and translate into English.
Why dicey? At a minimum, we need support for basic image editing (cropping, resizing, rotating). And there are external libraries we can likely leverage here.
Its not to bad with images but once you switch to video file size becomes a problem.
Here is how this sounds to me: "It's hard to do for every file, so we shouldn't do it".
Online editing for images is an obvious first step, but we know there are already basic online video editing functions (youtube) so even if it takes a while, this should be a target for the engineering team.
Does anyone know if there are any bugs on the subject?
Why is that? Isn't the most efficient and most logical path to media
donations via Commons? Is that path currently the least painful?
The reason you go via wikipedia is that they are the project with the missing images.
Making Commons "a project" appears more and more as a mistake. It's too late to complain about it, but it's not too late to move away from the project Commons to the repository Commons, with each project administering the images it uses and an Arbitration committee handling the contentious deletions.
Strainu