[Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

[Milos Rancic]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 18:28, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
>  An'n 25.09.2010 17:53, hett Milos Rancic schreven:
>> Today I am working from my netbook. It is not so easy to find the
>> right button and the screen is small. I wanted to upload 20k logo for
>> new Wikipedia edition (in Banjar) [1]. I wanted to find the right
>> copyright tag (logo is trademark of WMF). So, I clicked on
>> "Permissions" link, instead on question mark. When I went back all of
>> the form was blanked.
> I guess you are right, that the Wikimedia bureaucracy can be improved
> although I have no actual ideas how to do it. But I don't think that
> your example with Commons upload is a good example. This behaviour
> certainly is a total failure in usability (I never experienced the
> problem because I use the classic uplaod form). But the problem is not
> conflicting design goals of developers and Commons admins. It's just
> some error in the Javascript. The error can be fixed and the upload form
> should work as expected. If anybody knows where in the code the form
> blanking happens please report it so it can be fixed.

There are other issues besides JavaScript. I needed 15 minutes to
upload image (after the initial problem) not because JavaScript
problem, but because of not various requirements which are not well
defined.