On 28/06/07, Daniel Cannon cannon.danielc@gmail.com wrote:
Formerly, the user only got this page if they were overwriting an
existing file, and ordinarily they would be taken straight to the new image page. Now it comes up if the file is being uploaded for the first time.
Indeed. Is this a problem, or what is your comment on this change?
My comment on this change is unless it was introduced for a reason, please change it back. Why mess with the UI unless it's an improvement? The old behaviour was faster for uploaders and ensured that people looked at their image at least once. The new behaviour may mean that people don't even look at the image once.Problems such as failing thumbnail, wrong orientation, badly rendered SVG, etc are less likely to be noticed, as are warnings from license selector "traps" which are sometimes used (e.g. license selector says "I don't know where the image is from" -> warning template about no source).
See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Change_to_Upload_beha...
cheers, Brianna