[Mediawiki-l] process for uploading/linking to files is difficult

[Benjamin FrantzDale]

I don't think Sam is suggesting that the description be put in the
example caption. I think he means instead of this:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Successful upload

File foo.png uploaded successfully. Please follow this link:
Image:foo.png to the description page and fill in information about
the file, such as where it came from, when it was created and by whom,
and anything else you may know about it. If this is an image, you can
insert it like this: [[Image:foo.png|thumb|Description]]
------------------------------------------------------------------

the success page could look more like this:


------------------------------------------------------------------
Successful upload

File foo.png uploaded successfully witht the following description:

  My amazing picture of foo {{GFDL}}

To show it on a page, write:
  [[Image:foo.png|thumb|description]]
 
Or follow this link: Image:foo.png to the description page and fill in
information about the file, such as where it came from, when it was
created and by whom, and anything else you may know about it.
------------------------------------------------------------------

--Ben

On 4/15/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Sam Rowe wrote:
> > Another thing that always confused me about the mediawiki upload process is
> > that you're prompted to enter a description and then the "success" page's
> > "blobby paragraph" includes an example that contains your filename, but not
> > your description. That seems like an easy fix! Should I file a bug?
> 
> No, that doesn't make a lot of sense. You'd see stuff like this:
> 
> [[Image:SumatraMap.jpg|Map of [[Sumatra]], version as of 2005-04-11.
> Taken from http://foo.bar.baz/maps/asia/, marked as public domain.
> {{Public domain image}}
> 
> I modified the legend to make it more legible and remove the scanning
> errors, and did a threshold to reduce the number of colors for better
> compression.
> 
> TODO: Replace with cleaned-up SVG version.]]
> 
> The description is for the description page. It's *not* generally
> suitable for inline alternate text rendering for browsers that can't
> display images (which will always be context-dependent).
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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