Commons talk:Upload Wizard feedback

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Page title[edit]

To follow up on a usability problem with the previous title brought up on Village pump (Commons:Village_pump#Usability_issues_and_ideas), I move this to Commons:Prototype upload wizard feedback. --  Docu  at 16:12, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

257 KB and counting...[edit]

Time to archive? NVO (talk)

Valid license tag not accepted[edit]

Upload Wizard did not accept {{PD-textlogo}} as a licensing tag and kept returning an error message, although the preview was good. Please fix this ASAP. Fleet Command (talk) 05:53, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What was the error message? John Vandenberg (chat) 06:07, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"This does not seem to be valid wikitext, or does not contain a license."
Fleet Command (talk) 19:41, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I just tested it myself. It's obviously case-sensitive. {{PD-textlogo}} works; {{Pd-textlogo}} (a redirect) does not. LX (talk, contribs) 20:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone even look at this page anymore?[edit]

-mattbuck (Talk) 06:52, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just got my question answered.... so I'm guessing yes. However, I see a lot of non-english questions remain unanswered though, so that's one glaring issue. Dainomite (talk) 07:00, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's on my watchlist, and based on reverts of test edits without feedback, I'm not the only one watching it. I guess the relevant question is if any developers who are actually able to do anything about reported problems look at the page. LX (talk, contribs) 15:25, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed the declaration at the top to a slightly more truthful one. If you're reading this and you're a developer who plans on actually dealing with and responding to feedback left here, please revert me. LX (talk, contribs) 19:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
These issues are being looked at the coming 3 months by the multimedia developers. Several patches are under consideration in Gerrit right now, but as you note, it is VERY broken, which also makes it very difficult to know for sure if a change is making something better or worse. TheDJ (talk) 12:38, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note that users won't see the header before posting; messages are added from Special:UploadWizard itself via mediawiki.feedback.js dialog. --Nemo 15:39, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So where does one get the attention of developers, except at Phabricator? I wrote at Commons talk:Upload Wizard, but I suppose that page gets even less attention. Is the Village pump and similar pages the main forum for feedback and enquiries (hoping that somebody opens a bug if relevant)? –LPfi (talk) 15:43, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@LPfi: this page is a joke. At least three years ago it was already discussed whether people should still be led to this dead page by uploadwizard: Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback/Archive/2019/04#short_descriptions, but they still kept the link and made no attempt to visit this page often.
WMF is a joke. With all that money they have they cant handle a simple thing like this properly. Roy17 (talk) 12:08, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Seems so. Perhaps Phabricator is the way to go, but you cannot just log in with your "Commons" username (as stated at the page head). You need to give Phabricator access to your account. The wording on what this entails is incomprehensible and there is no link to a proper description.
So somebody with a Phabricator account shoud start a bug report on Upload Wizard asking for feedback that is never handled (and another on the description on how to enable Phabricator logins, and perhaps a third on Talk:Upload Wizard not being monitored be maintainers).
LPfi (talk) 12:33, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For starters, I've tried to update the header a bit to reflect reality. El Grafo (talk) 13:49, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Category[edit]

Either document that the field wants you not to include "Category:", or do some clever preprocessing that removes such a prefix. Or both. Mysha (talk) Mysha (talk) 13:09, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading from Flickr with Upload Wizard[edit]

Sometimes I upload groups of files from a US Government Flickr accounts. It's great that when uploading a group of related images, categories and descriptions can be copied to apply to all of them. But for some reason licenses can't - can this be fixed? It was annoying to have to click licenses for every one of a dozen or more images in a row before - but now it's changed and there's not even the option to add that with a single click per image, but now needing multiple clicks. Can a modification be made so that when uploading from the same batch of the same flickr account, one can apply the same license to all of them the same way we can apply the same category? -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 17:21, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The new form is garbage[edit]

What are we supposed to do when we’re uploading public art? This is worse than the previous version. At this rate every single subway station in Toronto is going to have a mural or some other form of art; are we now not allowed to upload pictures of subway or train stations? Al12si (talk) 00:38, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Al12si: is that a question about Freedom of Panorama in Canada or about the Wizard as such? Could you elaborate? - Jmabel ! talk 15:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]