On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A mediawiki upload should be specific and provide >> more functionality besides picking multiple files and uploading them. Most >> importantly, it has to provide a way to provide the basic information about >> license, source and authorship. Programs for this exist, I was just thinking >> that a firefox ad-on would be simpler to deploy and maintain that a >> standalone >> program, and people would be more likely to iunstall and use it. > > If a MediaWiki-specific workaround would exist, it would presumably be > a Java applet that wouldn't require separate installation. You're > right that such an applet could be written to do way more than just > show upload progress. On the other hand, I'm wary about having to > maintain multiple sets of functionality for clients with different > capabilities. It would be best to keep as many features as possible > in universally-accessible HTML-based upload pages, and only use Java > or JavaScript where something is not possible in HTML (like selection > of multiple files at once for upload, or progress indicators).
For my CommonsHelper [1] and flickr2commons [2] tools I have implemented a universal Commons user verification for the toolserver called TUSC [3] some time ago. All tools can use this to verify that someone using a tool does have a Commons (or any wikipedia) user login, and that account isn't blocked. We could offer mass-uploads via toolserver that way. Advantages: * Seperate from MediaWiki code * Quickly adaptable * Potentially many ways to upload (Perl, Java, ...) Drawbacks: * Additional one-time TUSC signup required (quick but potentially annoying) * Files would be uploaded under a bot name Or, we could enable my option in MediaWiki to "upload" by giving a URL; me could support multiple URLs that way. That would require people to upload their files on some public FTP or HTTP server, and then transfer them to Commons. My 2 pence, Magnus [1] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonshelper.php [2] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/flickr2commons.php [3] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/tusc.php _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
