https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68375
--- Comment #2 from Lupo <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Lupo from comment #0) > All in all, this looks like a nicely streamlined upload process with only > one (big) problem: how to make users understand that they absolutely MUST > NOT upload third-party images through it? Currently, we sometimes get funny occurrences of this pattern: * User uploads a file from somewhere else: [[:commons:File:Remember the old mario in the classical game? 2014-07-23 13-51.jpg]] * The file gets nominated for deletion * This user noticed that and... * ... uploads his next file: [[:commons:File:I dont know how to change the thing that says i created this image but anyway i need help on that- I really like luigi 2014-07-23 14-04.jpg]] (Mario again)!!! If it weren't so sad, it'd be hilarious. Admittedly, this precise pattern is rare. More common is just a re-upload a couple of hours later with the same name, without any attempt to get help. Problems I see from this: 1. The user doesn't know where to get help. 2. The user doesn't understand why his upload got nominated for deletion. He probably only noticed his talk page notification about the deletion request, but not the deletion request itself. Because the request gives a reason: "This is en:Mario, so certainly not the uploader's own work but ©Nintendo. From the content of Category:Mario (video game series) I'd guess that we don't consider this to be in the Public Domain for simpleness, right?" 3. The user doesn't even pause to think about what happened, he just wants an image of Mario in Wikipedia. 4. The user is using the mobile/web upload process, which is only for self-taken photos, for an image from somewhere else. 5. The user has even realized this (i.e., point 4), yet still uses this process because it is the only process available to him. The user is, as far as I see, autoconfirmed at the English Wikipedia (account created on July 1, 2014, and he did have more than ten contributions, although most of them got deleted). Not all of these are a problem with the mobile front-end. For instance, the talk-page notifications could perhaps be improved to repeat the deletion reason. Help links could be made available more liberally in more places. But the mobile/web upload process also clearly has a problem. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
