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. -Andrew On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Juan de Vojníkov <juandevojni...@gmail.com> 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 > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
