2015-07-31 19:54 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih <[email protected]>: > FYI, for those interested in uploading to Commons, there was an interesting > presentation at Wikimania about usability testing this. > > https://archive.org/details/videoeditserver-96 > > The short answer to your very valid question -- licenses and copyright are > complicated legal issues when it comes to media. That creeps over into > usability in ways that are probably going to be very hard to solve. >
I guess it adds complexity for sure, however it doesn't explains why we still can't do a proper image rotation or crop without hacking around JS or bots (which makes things complicated when the volunteer maintainer has enough of fixing is code due to change mediawiki). > > -Andrew > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Juan de Vojníkov < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs > on > > Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not, could > it > > be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for editors = > > VisualEditor. Contributors have no longer study "wikicode" to be able to > > contribute. That removes one of the technological barriers and it looks > its > > a priority for WMF. > > > > While part of contributing to Wikipedia is still contributing by images. > I > > am from Wikimedia Czech republic. We run many projects based on media > > harvest or organizing *low barrier media harvest activities* to bring new > > users to Wikipedia. > > > > > > As our newbies are not technologically skilled and not native English > > speakers, there is a big technology block to contribute to Wikipedia with > > ease: > > > > 1) there is no app for mobile phones and tablets for image upload > > > > 2) newbies are lost, when they click on "Upload image" and they are > > transferred from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons > > > > 3) Wikimedia Commons is in English - foreign language for our > participants > > > > 4) biggest language barrier are categories, which are in English only, we > > need to insert name of the category in our mother tongue > > > > 5) Wikimedia Commons environment is still pretty "techy" > > > > 6) Insert metadata, takes a long time: > > > > e.g.: you have an image of a cathedral in Des Moines, IW. 3 or 4 times > you > > have to insert same information: a) to file name (*Des Moines, > > cathedral.jpg*), b) to file description (*en:** Cathedral in Des Moines, > > Iowa, USA*/*es:* *La catedral de XY en Des Moines, Iowa, EEUU*) and c) to > > the category (*category:Des Moines* or *Churches in Des Moines*, > > *category:Cathedrals > > in Iowa*). > > > > Its 2015, there are many social projects around us. You can handle images > > much easier on these projects than on mother of all social projects - > > Wikipedia. Big step was done with using images allready present in > Commons. > > Could we do something for those, who contributes with their media to > > Wikipedia? Could we do it in one or two years? > > > > Thank you very much for your concern! > > > > Regards, > > > > Juandev > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Pierre-Selim _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
