On 3/11/2010 2:06 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hello all, > > together with Frank Schulenburg and Naoko Komura, I just participated > in a video-conference with the winners of the Google Kiswahili > Wikipedia challenge ( http://www.google.com/events/kiswahili-wiki/ ), > and we talked about some of the challenges they encountered when > contributing to the Swahili Wikipedia. > > One of the issues was that it was very hard for them to upload files. > Specifically, when you're a new user on a small wiki like sw.wp, you > _cannot upload_ locally due to a restriction of uploads to > autoconfirmed users. The upload link isn't even visible in the sidebar > until you're autoconfirmed, and you get a confusing error message if > you happen to call up Special:Upload. > >>From a user experience standpoint, this is horrible. > > For the immediate future, I suggest lifting this restriction for wikis > between 1,000 and 50,000 articles in size (large enough to have a few > active users, small enough to not yet have lots of policy around these > issues). Ultimately we'll want to integrate Commons better into the > user experience, but until then, IMO we should eliminate artificial > impediments like this which prevent people from growing their > communities and frustrate them -- unless there's a proven issue of > large scale abuse. Does that make sense? > > Thanks, > Erik
I do hope the concerns that led to this being implemented[1] will be taken into consideration before it is undone. [1] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=931972#Set_upload_to_autoconfirmed_Wikimedia-wide> -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
