There was the Add Media Wizard project from a while back ( that sounds similar to what you describe ) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard
I wanted to take a look at integrating upload wizard into it post TMH deployment, and or something new could be built as a gadget as well. --michael On 12/18/2011 07:22 AM, Gregor Hagedorn wrote: > The improvements to the Upload Wizard are very welcome, but socially, > I think it is still broken. Please correct me if I overlook something > or overlook another extension. > > Socially, I believe many mediawiki extensions need a way to ask for > images on a topic page, provide an upload wizard AND display the > results on the topic page. Presently, even if the image is added to > the wiki or a commons repository, it simply disappears in a black hole > from the perspective of the contributing image author. > > I believe it is possible to have a wizard option which does the following: > * store the page context from which it was called. > * upload images to local wiki or a repository > * open the page context in edit mode > * search for some form of new-images-section > ** a possible implementation of this could be a div with id=newimages > containing a gallery tag > * if new-images-section exists: add images, if not create with new images. > * Save context page. > > Presently, WMF is possibly the biggest driver of open content (CC > BY/CC BY-SA) but is able to collect images only from the small > population that is the intersection of the population or people able > to edit mediawiki and the huge population able to provide quality > images. > > The new-images-section solution would probably not directly work for > wikipedia itself; here some more complex review mechanism (new images > gallery would be shown only to some users, including image uploader, > or so) would be needed, perhaps in combination with flagged rev. I > view this feature however potentially as a two step process: implement > with direct addition to page, modify to optimize for flagged revs. > > However, I think something the described feature would be needed; > presently all these crowdsourcing images are mostly collected by > projects that either use no open content license at all, or the NC > license at best. WMF is not able to exert its potential pull towards > open content in this area. > > Also reported as > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33234 > > Gregor > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
