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Alter wording about categories in upload wizard
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Description

There is a bunch of text messages in Extension:UploadWizard that
deal with putting uploaded files into Categories of the wiki.

They are worded in a way as if categories were added to files.

This wording is wrong and bewildering, since files actually are
being put into categories - while category links, or category
references are being insterted into the description pages of
files.

It is impractical to translate "put a categoy into a file" since
that may incorrectly suggest the file's data was being altered,
and putting a category into its content was as strange as
"pouring a jar into lemonade."

Besides that, the current wording appears extremely misguiding
to me. Users should be educated to understand how putting stuff
into categories technically works. Once they start editing
description pages, they will have to understand and know it.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: aklapper-moreinfo

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Reference
bz30173

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:48 PM
bzimport added projects: UploadWizard, I18n.
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Trying http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard :
In the "Describe" steps, clicking "Add categories and more information ..." to get the "Add categories" dropdown, the small question mark button says "Add your file to categories so as to make it easier to find."

Purodha: Please provide steps where to find the exact strings that you would like to see improved, and please provide the actual current wording (exact quote) here.

Closing this as I don't see any wrong message, reopen with some evidence.