Commons:Upload Wizard feedback/Archive/2020/06

Feedback on uploading related images for Commons and thus Wikidata linking.

This is a very good tool.

Selecting the images within one directory is clear.

Releasing copyright is clear

Main details page for individual files is fine for small uploads. For large uploads there are several improvements that should be made to the error handling and copying procedure. The copy button allows you to copy the details from file 1 to all other files beneath. I would like this copy option to be available from any file. Take the visit to Beispieldorf:- files 1 to 50, are houses in the village 51 to 70 are houses in Kirchstrasse, 71-80 are of one house in the street, then I have 20 files of the church and 20 files of the castle. I want to put the same Categories, and description to all files, then at file 51 I want to expand the description and categories, and do the same again at file 71 . At file 81 make a further change that will affect the next 20 files. At 101, most of the details can be over written. That would speed up my work flow no end

I would like a preview button on the copy. On a large upload with descriptions including a lot of {{w|Location article}} there is a devastating risk of getting mismatched brackets. For piece of mind- can this be included.

Now error handling. The error check is done on publishing. The user is left at the bottom of a thousand line screen, with no indication on what is happening. On publish- there needs to be a status message given beneath the publish button. I want to know that the server is processing, or an error has been detected, or number of errors detected. Icing on the cake would be the option to move the cursor back to the first error. I had an attempted upload that hung. It was caused in a corrupted exif on 3 images. On other software I had rotated the image and then rotated it back, this had mangled the date field! Visually the file was fine. I didn't know whether I had blown the cache on the laptop, whether it was a HTTP error, or whether politics had caused the servers to go down. Pressing the computers back button, just wipes the local machines data and you have to start over. Can the error check be done much earlier- maybe when the thumbnails are being created before copyright is claimed.

Assuming that the user has twigged that there is an error, one needs to find it. On a large upload how do you find it- the Error message is in the text file but is far too small and far too similar the red 'remove' icon along side each field. Please use a massive png file- maybe of a soul being cast into hell and consumed by fire. Better would be a dedicated routine that just displays the affected file, and allows editing or deletion. I have thoughts but leave it to the programmers to decide.

The final small comment relates to adding missing location details. Practically, the camera often doesn't move much between two shots, so if the location details are missing- a clone from previous file choice would be useful. When you are filling in location details you will take it from OSM, that delivers it data in XX.XXXX,YY.YYYY format. One copies and pastes it into the latitude field and gets an ERROR. Couldn't we modify the validation code to recognise this, and separate the XX from the ,YY, autofilling the longitude field. It would make the process far quicker.

I reiterate that this is a nice piece of software, so important that it deserves to be allocated some extra staff resources to make it crisper.--ClemRutter (talk) 09:21, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

As long as we're on the subject of locations, the Locator tool is very handy and something similar would be a good addition the upload wizard. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:15, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

making the qfi blocked user message more helpful

could the tool quote and/or link to the appropriate row in commons:questionable Flickr images#Flickr_users? Took me a bit of searching to even find that page. Arlo James Barnes 23:08, 26 June 2020 (UTC)