On 6/28/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote: A lot about the image upload process could be improved. There's still no warning/suggestion, even when using the wizard, to add categories to your uploaded image. And there is still that lame warning (last I checked) about converting spaces into underscores, with an even lamer and misleading warning about not overwriting other people's images. Ideally, I think the process would go something like this: 1. Specify a source file name and destination file name 2. Start uploading 3. Be taken to an intermediate screen which asks for licence, description, author, categories etc, all as individual fields. 4. Save changes, wait for the upload. 5. When the upload finishes, be taken to its normal page, showing the image and all the fields you filled in, for doublechecking. Being able to edit these fields during the upload would be much more conducive to good field descriptions (you're less impatient, because the upload is already going), and uploading bigger files (because you have less dead time). I have a pretty crappy upstream connection (10kbps), and I find the whole upload process incredibly tedious. The inability to readily delete or rename files is also, in a word, shit. And I know that the bug report has been around a long time, and annoying users like me complaining about its non implementation doesn't help. Sorry. Steve

On 28/06/07, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Indeed, this was in fact later "fixed" again by me, although I have to admit that that was an accident. There was, as I recall, another outcry, and you fixed it again, and then Wegge came along and made it into a preference to keep everybody happy. Rob Church

On 29/06/07, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: It seemed as if the success message only came up on image overwriting. Thus we used the message to confirm with the uploader that they intended to overwrite another file. If people use a common filename (apples.jpg) and click 'ignore all warnings' they wouldn't know they had overwritten another file. (Steve was right in pointing out that the 'spaces have been changed to underscores' warning is quite useless. I often check 'ignore all warnings' to avoid this. Perhaps other experienced users do too.) It might also be useful to use the 'successful upload' message to convey the fact that overwriting-uploading only overwrites files, not image page descriptions. So, in conclusion, I don't know. :) I can ask what people at Commons think about it, though. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

On 7/1/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote: I just checked in a javascript function that will show a warning on the upload page itself (that is, before you even click "upload file") if there is already a file with that filename. The message will be turned on and off when you edit the destination filename manually, as well. Magnus