Hi Multimedia fans,
You're probably aware that nearly two months ago, we deployed a cross-wiki
upload tool [1], available in VisualEditor (via Insert → Media → Upload)
and wikitext editor (via image icon → Upload). The plan to develop it was
originally announced on this list [2], but it seems that we neglected to
mention that we actually did it :) (it was in Tech News, though).
You might not be aware that it was used to upload over 44 thousand of
files to Commons so far – unfortunately, it turns out that people really
don't care to read what they agree to, and many of the uploaded files
proved to be copyright violations. I guess we should've foreseen that.
Starting tomorrow, we'll be running an A/B test of four different
interface options, hoping to find one that maximises good uploads while
minimizing bad ones. You can read more about it (there are screenshots!)
at [3] and the corresponding Phabricator task T120867 [4].
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_upload
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-June/001062.html
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/December_2015_cross-wiki_upload_A/B_test#Options
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120867
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Bartosz Dziewoński
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