[Wikipedia-l] Ideas on improving image history

[Daniel Mayer]

Here is a copy of a recent feature request I made. The last part of this 
feature request would need list approval so I am copying the request here: 

In the past I have provided very important source information to the summary 
field provided when uploading an image (alas, now this is gone from the log 
-- where is it?). It would be /very/ useful and important to have this same 
text become part of the image's history. 

It seems odd that this isn't now the case: Logically, uploading an image 
"creates" the image in the database so whatever is said in the summary field 
at that time should be entry #1 in the image's history, no? 

In addition, for one image we have; the image history, the history of edits 
to the image page and the uploads log -- which is a bit confusing. I'm not 
sure how to remedy this particular thing though.... 

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload_log

BTW, it is way cool that URLs in the upload summary fields now are active. 
Perhaps we should encourage (maybe even require...) uploaders to provide a 
weblink to the media's source /if/ that media were obtained from another 
website. This would make checking for copyright compliance a snap.

--maveric149