Here are my thoughts - one of them is on the upload wizard, others are specific to the
Flickr upload:
In general for uploads, showing a complex infographic to users prior to an upload is a
surefire way to lose people (I hadn't seen this yet because I've been using
Commonist for a while). I think we should offer education throughout the wizard
contextually and minimally, perhaps as small comic strips in the margins of the actual
upload page.
Upon click the "Add from Flickr" button everything on the upload page disappears
and there's no way to undo that step without reloading the page. Maybe a user was just
exploring the new feature and wants to go back to the regular upload screen after they
looked at it? It may be better to consolidate everything on one upload page rather than
having disappearing input elements.
OCD Nitpick: After uploading an image, it has a hover state but the cursor doesn't
reflect that which feels weird (just add .mwe-upwiz-visible-file-filename { cursor:
pointer; })
After uploading and seeing your list of images, the "Remove" action is small
(which is good) however it is inside of the hover area for clicking on the image for a
preview. This can be confusing; I'd redesign the display of uploaded images to have
the "Remove" button beside each hover area, not inside of it.
Clicking "Add another file" after you've uploaded a Flickr file opens a file
picker dialog; it should be clear from the button copy that you're adding from your
computer, not Flickr again. Also, the "Add another image from Flickr" function
should probably be available in that page.
That's about it for now!
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Munaf Assaf
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
I think the UX is pretty good here already (thanks to
anyone on the
list who contributed), but additional feedback is appreciated.
In the long run it would be good to generalize the "Add from Flickr"
into a generalized "Add from [source 1|source 2|...]" UI, but I think
it's fine for now.
Erik
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:erik@wikimedia.org)>
Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:10 PM
Subject: Testing Upload Wizard Flickr import feature
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
(mailto:commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org)>
Hi,
Kaldari has been polishing the work done during Google Summer of Code
by Ankur Anand to support importing correctly licensed Flickr
photo(-sets) using Upload Wizard. You specify a photoset URL, and
Upload Wizard should treat it like a batch upload. You can test the
feature here:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (you'll need to
make a new test user account)
Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started.
Since UW performs a license check, UW will also add a
"VerifiedByUploadWizard" template which should help with the long term
validation of licenses for Flickr imported content.
Known issues:
* Getting a better 'source' value for each image - ideally we want the
regular Flickr URL, not the farm server URL
* Getting the description for each image, this may require separate
calls to the Flickr API.
* Making the 'author' value a link to the Flickr account
* Supporting the feature to copy metadata across a whole batch, which
is shown for regular batch uploads
Now's a good time to start playing with it. You can leave feedback
here:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Flickr_testing -
or file in Bugzilla against the UploadWizard extension.
Thanks!
Erik
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