https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33234
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Bug #: 33234
Summary: Image uploading social workflow and motivation -
display result on context pages!
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: UploadWizard
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
The improvements to the Upload Wizard are very welcome, but socially, I think
it is still broken. Please correct me if I overlook something or overlook
another extension.
Socially, I believe many mediawiki extensions need a way to ask for images on a
topic page, provide an upload wizard AND display the results on the topic page.
Presently, even if the image is added to the wiki or a commons repository, it
simply disappears in a black hole from the perspective of the contributing
image author.
I believe it is possible to have a wizard option which does the following:
* store the page context from which it was called.
* upload images to local wiki or a repository
* open the page context in edit mode
* search for some form of new-images-section
** a possible implementation of this could be a div with id=newimages
containing a gallery tag
* if new-images-section exists: add images, if not create with new images.
* Save context page.
Presently, WMF is possibly the biggest driver of open content (CC BY/CC BY-SA)
but is able to collect images only from the small population that is the
intersection of the population or people able to edit mediawiki and the huge
population able to provide quality images.
The new-images-section solution would probably not directly work for wikipedia
itself; here some more complex review mechanism (new images gallery would be
shown only to some users, including image uploader, or so) would be needed,
perhaps in combination with flagged rev. I view this feature however
potentially as a two step process: implement with direct addition to page,
modify to optimize for flagged revs.
However, I think something the described feature would be needed; presently all
these crowdsourcing images are mostly collected by projects that either use no
open content license at all, or the NC license at best. WMF is not able to
exert its potential pull towards open content in this area.
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