Multimedia:Upload

Workflow

Workflow and interface redesign

• most likely cases (own work,
• simple, not too verbose
• but we need to educate them a little => quick tutorial for first-time users

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:16414: Upload form should prevent submission of filename with disallowed extension
• bugzilla:4647: Allow per-wiki customizable fields on upload form (e.g., for source)
• bugzilla:9133: Drag and drop uploading
• bugzilla:10976: Upladed file size calculations to compare with upload quota
• bugzilla:11416: Upload window bigger
• bugzilla:14926: Multiple customizable upload forms
• bugzilla:16181: Simplify the UI of the upload form
• bugzilla:16968: Special:Upload gives tedious warning about changing spaces to underscores in file names
• bugzilla:21288: After upload warning, "return and choose different name" serves empty page
• bugzilla:21338: New user right: "Allow large uploads"
• bugzilla:21645: Create a more specific warning when (re)uploading a file is protected
• bugzilla:13928: SpecialUpload warning results in long buttons
• bugzilla:22026: Description page and upload summary are blank

Staging area

aka holding area, incomplete uploads, quarantine section, etc.

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:4995: Ability to block users from uploading files only

  Listing this bug only as a reminder. This is probably not the way we want to handle this kind of users.

• bugzilla:2537: Ability to preview summary in "Upload file" page.

  Will probably be INVALID after the redesign of the upload process, since we don't want any (wiki)text on the upload page itself. Preview will be included in the next step of the upload where the user provides pieces of information about their file.

• bugzilla:16437: Ability to preview vector/re-rendered images in Special:Upload "warning" interstitial.
• bugzilla:20326: Option to strip some metadata on upload (GPS/geolocation privacy)

Multiple Upload

Allow several files to be uploaded at the same time (5 to 10)

• possibility to add the same description(s), license(s), category(ies), geocode to all the pictures
• but also to specify custom data for each

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:488: Upload more than one file at a time
• bugzilla:16751: Support multiple file uploads via Special:Upload (backend/infrastructure)
• bugzilla:16752: Support HTML 5 multiple upload control
• bugzilla:16753: Support Flash-based upload widget to handle multiple file selection
• bugzilla:18132: Support multiple file uploads with upload-by-URL

Reupload

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:4636: Overwriting a file loses new summary/description text
• bugzilla:20971: Upload new versions of files with different file type

  See also bug 4421: Image file extension should not be part of the name

• bugzilla:15676: Duplicate image reuploading should be forbidden
• bugzilla:9246: When uploading a new version of a file watch this page is not automatic
• bugzilla:17194: Special uploadtext for the reupload form
• bugzilla:12490: Warning needed if dimensions of reupload differ

Smart upload

Metadata extraction

Extract relevant metadata from files on upload

• Priority: EXIF
• IPTC and XMP would be nice too, especially since XMP can host multilingual descriptions
• where we store these metadata (existing templates, structured data) will be determined later.

See Multimedia:Metadata#Metadata extraction

Category suggestion

based on file name, keywords, description, metadata, etc.

Automatic conversion

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:14373: Automatically convert uploaded files
• bugzilla:20252: Support for WAV and AIFF by converting files to FLAC automatically.

Copyright & permissions

Permissions workflow

Rethink it, make it more straightforward

PD calculator

worldwide PD calculator

EDP management

Some wikis have fair-use or similar policies. See EDP.

Source of upload

Upload by URL

from 3rd-party websites (flickr, Internet Archive, etc.)

• Check if the source or the file provides useful metadata
• Check if the source or the file provides copyright information

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:18202: Upload-by-URL should run in background, report feedback interactively to user
• bugzilla:18243: Upload via URL: More meaningful error messages when HTTP error encountered
• bugzilla:18112: Retain URL as metadata on upload-by-url

Inline upload

upload while editing a page

Cross-wiki upload

• coupled to Inline upload and Crosswiki integration

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:1552: Upload to Commons from any Wikimedia website
• bugzilla:18885: Red links for media files do not support shared repositories rev:60593

Other

Related bugs:

• bugzilla:17957 Infrastructure for image/video file uploads by FTP