On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
About purpose-specific forms. Two of our purpose-specific forms are actually for functions that probably shouldn't be directly through the upload form.
One is for images from Flickr. If ImportFreeImages was installed on Commons this could be done away with. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8854 (This request has been open for 16 months.)
That looks nice. But if we're rewriting the upload function anyway, how well would this integrate? Or would it be easier/prettier/more useful to rewrite that functionality from scratch?
Probably. See my proposal on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upload_form_changes. I would like to separate the logics for 1) showing the upload form, 2) the read part and 3) the storage part. You may for example want to use the same logic for showing the upload form but want to replace 2) to upload from Flickr. Or you want to give users the opportunity to upload from different forms while keeping the backend the same.
I would like some comments of this, because I might make this my project for this summer :)
Bryan