Grants talk:IEG/Upload from context

Comment by Rillke

Uploading involves both, technical and legal challenges. Simply drag&dop will not do the job for Wikimedia Wikis. The files will need descriptions, tags or categories and proper copyright information.

We do already have the utterly complex Upload Wizard. I know what I am talking about as I am administrator at Wikimedia Commons, the central file archive, for 2 years and submitted proposals for patches to Upload Wizard and investigated issues, listened to community members at Commons:Upload help, Commons:Village pump, Commons:Forum, Commons:Village pump and Commons:Help desk.

My proposal is to make Upload Wizard compatible with Visual Editor (e.g by offering a special UI for VE). Upload Wizard is by design highly encapsulated, which allows running it nearly everywhere. Keeping the upload-logic central will reduce maintenance efforts, which involves the technical aspect of uploading as well as its configuration (choice of licenses, for example). -- Rillke (talk) 09:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback. My idea of this project came from zoomin.com, if you ever try using this website to upload images there you would see that they have a really nice interface which would pop-up and also allow features like tagging, categorizing, etc within that pop-up. I have myself been a contributor to Upload Wizard and know the complexities that it has but than its a challenge to make this feature which is really wanted by lots. Improving UW is a good idea, but that too needs a lot of effort and sometimes going from scratch might be easier. I don't know how you want to integrate it with VE though, but that's too a plausible opinion. I would also let you know that soon after I made this proposal I figured it has a high chances of rejection because it might need help from WMF engineers, that discouraged me and I haven't updated the whole thing since then.--Nischayn22 (talk) 09:29, 14 July 2013 (UTC)