It's been a long time coming but we're getting close to being able to release UploadWizard to a broader spectrum of users.
If you are unfamiliar with the project, the idea is to greatly improve the usability of the uploading experience. We haven't been public for a while but we are working hard on fixing all the bugs you've reported. You should see more regular updates from us over this month.
We're pretty sure this will be a giant improvement over the current experience, although we're aware that there's a degree of skepticism out there about this, and some questions about whether this will increase copyvio or have other bad effects. This is where you all come in.
Questions we're considering:
- How best to roll this out -- it should be phased, but how exactly?
- How to monitor how this changes what gets uploaded, does it increase copyvio, etc. Obviously if this starts to increase we want to pull back and reassess.
We already add every image uploaded with UploadWizard to the category "Uploaded With UploadWizard". What tools exist to survey the copyvio rates, let's say of one category versus all categories? If this requires coding, does this sound like a cool project to you?