Desilets, Alain wrote: >> We're currently working on a grant proposal that is related to the >> usability for uploading and embedding media files to Wikimedia Commons. > > I think this is a good idea. Embedding images and other files into a wiki > page is something that most wiki engines don't support in a highly usable > way. I observed something like 100 kids working with wikis for 10 hours each, > on a task that involved a lot of image uploading. Uploading images was one of > the most frequent snags that I observed. > > A typical snag looked like this. > > * User finds an image he likes on the web, using his browser. > * User saves that image to his file system, using the default location > selected by the browser. > * User goes to the wiki page, and clicks on the upload image button. > * The browser starts a file selection dialog, but it starts from a different > part of the file system than the part where the user saved the image. > * User doesn't have a clue where he saved the image previously and can't > find the image anymore.
MediaWiki supports a upload from URL feature, thus skipping the need to local save. But it's disabled on WMF projects. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
