Ben Schwartz wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to make it easier for novice users to create Sign Language definition pages with videos for en.wiktionary's new "Sign gloss:" namespace. It's already possible to create such pages, but it requires a large number of steps, which can deter potential contributors.
I'd like to make a command-line tool or web-form. The user would provide
- Their name and password*
- The name of the page
- The text contents of the page (definition, etymology, etc. as plain
text fields) 4. A video of the sign (and maybe also a video of it in use)
The tool would then automatically 0a. Check if the page already exists (and stop if it does) 0b. Convert the video to a format appropriate for Commons, if needed
- Log in as the user
- Upload the video to Commons
- Create the page with the desired contents.
Is this a good idea?
Is there something like this already that I could use as a basis?
I don't think that's appropiate as a single web form. You would want to make it a Wizard with several steps, so you don't make him record a video just to then tell "We already have that page". Neil may be interested on this. He recently made the UploadWizard.
*: Ideally I'd like to be able to help users who don't yet have accounts to make accounts, and also somehow automatically handle the account-linking business between Commons, Wiktionary, etc.
That's not really a problem. All of these steps could be handled quite easily.
If this were a web form, how would I handle username+password securely?
This is best done in an extension.