https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68285

--- Comment #7 from Jean-Fred <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Fæ from comment #5)
> This might be a slight tangent, but chipping in my category experience...
> 
> I have been adding multiple categories to several batch upload projects now
> by flexibly adding categories as a separated list of elements at the time
> when I generate the XML file. Slightly naff early example I happen to have
> to hand:
>   <cat_1>Brussels</cat_1>
>   <cat_2>Images uploaded by Fæ</cat_2>
>   <cat_3>Belgium</cat_3>
> 
> These are then added as categories at GWT "step 2" under "Item specific
> categories". 

Yeah, I tried that at the beginning but decided that...

> Problems are avoided by ensuring that a record with the maximum
> number of categories appears at the top of the file, so is used as an
> exemplar for mapping.

this was just too annoying to do. :-þ

> There is no particular benefit in bundling these as a parent single element,
> so for the moment I would recommend new GWT users design their xml as a flat
> layout of elements in this way. Anything other than a flat structure is far
> more likely to cause unexpected issues during upload.

(Just for the record (no pun intended), I am only using flat structure)

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