Here is a copy of a recent feature request I made. The last part of this feature request would need list approval so I am copying the request here:
In the past I have provided very important source information to the summary field provided when uploading an image (alas, now this is gone from the log -- where is it?). It would be /very/ useful and important to have this same text become part of the image's history.
It seems odd that this isn't now the case: Logically, uploading an image "creates" the image in the database so whatever is said in the summary field at that time should be entry #1 in the image's history, no?
In addition, for one image we have; the image history, the history of edits to the image page and the uploads log -- which is a bit confusing. I'm not sure how to remedy this particular thing though....
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload_log
BTW, it is way cool that URLs in the upload summary fields now are active. Perhaps we should encourage (maybe even require...) uploaders to provide a weblink to the media's source /if/ that media were obtained from another website. This would make checking for copyright compliance a snap.
--maveric149