On 9/25/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote: <snip>
cause. Admins clearing those backlogs on Wikipedia rarely spare the
time for the easy cases such as logos, PD images that can be detected with the human eye and brain and user contributed images that are almost certainly intended to be donated to Wikipedia under any license, except that the new user has no idea how to do that.
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Having watched the free image/fair use debate go more than a few rounds, it seems like one non-controversial way of improving things could be to take a long hard look at the image uploading process and instruction pages. If any part of the site is a candidate for having a professional work on the UI, this seems like a good one. The pages are better than they used to be, but still *I* get confused and overwhelmed by the current upload pages, and I know what they're trying to say. Remember that the copyright concepts we're talking about are poorly understood or completely unfamiliar to most people; little wonder that folks keep uploading unacceptable images. Maybe at the least a multipage uploading wizard like the Articles for creation wizard would be useful, to break up all the "step 1, step 2" pages into something readable.
-- phoebe