On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > This is really a Commons question, but...why is so little effort made > to promote bulk upload tools like Commonist? I've wasted countless > hours struggling with the crappy web forms, when it's so easy to do > using the right tool. None of the upload pages make the slightest > mention of these tools. Is this by design or just not thought out? > > Steve
As with most such things, it's surely the latter. But do we want to encourage mass uploads? I thought people were already rather unhappy with so much fair use and copyvios and poor quality uploads (these were the cited reasons for not moving all non-fairuse on en to Commons), and promotion of tools would necessarily encourage use by non-savvy users... -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
