Good idea, Gilles! I just created a ticket for that data collection:
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/920 This will help us prioritize where to focus our efforts in this space. Another thing we could do is to provide more helpful error messages for unsupported file formats, so we can help users figure out how to transcode their files into supported formats. But let’s first identify the file formats people try to upload the most, then we can prioritize the error message improvements. Sam, thanks for clarifying the use cases that cause problems for you, that is really helpful! -f On Sep 26, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote: > On that note, it would be good to collect which unsupported extensions people > are trying to upload. Statistics about that would tell us what new format > support would have the biggest impact. > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > a dashboard is available now: > > http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/uw > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UploadWizard/Funnel_analysis > > Very nice. > > > The situation haven't changed since June: upload attempts > > fail with an embarrassingly high frequency > > I would guess a lot of this is due to "DOES NOT ACCEPT FILENAMES THAT > END IN <foo>". This blocks many of my uploads (spreadsheets, bio > molecules, map routes, 3D images). Others I try to upload in a > not-accepted format (e.g., odf, epub) before going and transcoding > them. > > IMO we should accept all free-format files on upload, even if after > acceptance we notify the uploader that they are held in a quarantine > area for sanitizing/processing. If that is too hard, we could create > a stub page on upload that points to an Internet Archive page where > their file has been uploaded. Either would feel like partial success > in using the upload form. > > Sam > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Unsupported_file_types > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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