Strongly recommend to make the categories visible AND mandatory. It's counter-intuitive to hide it, and then after upload send an email to that effect.
Images without a category should be rejected!

saibotrash wrote:

I suggest (as a first fix - more is and will be discussed at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Upload_Wizard#Commons:Categories_-_Only_experts_can_get_this_right.3F ):
Show the cat section at least and display a warning if no cats have been filled it with some info (usually cat names are in English, Plural). But I would not make it mandatory (now).

+ We just need to make sure that files with < 1 working (=existing cat page) cat are tagged as uncategorized. And files with > 1 red (=notexisting cat page) should be tagged with {{Check categories}}

This sounds like an overwhelmingly Commons-specific feature request. Also, see the config option 'missingCategoriesWikiText' for a way to deal with this problem at least partially. Would that feature be enough, or is more necessary? I realize that nobody has touched this bug in some time, so I'd like to re-evaluate the importance.

saibotrash wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

This sounds like an overwhelmingly Commons-specific feature request.

Pardon? Then direct it to Eric Moeller if you don't like this Commons stuff.

I don't mind fixing problems that arise on Commons when it's a flaw in the software, but as noted in bug 34332, there's a part of Bugzilla designated for configuration options, and it's not here! From the perspective of the software team, this bug is closed, so how's this: I'll re-categorize it to the proper place.

People watching the site configuration section, please make the above configuration change for Commons.

saibotrash wrote:

(In reply to comment #5)

I don't mind fixing problems that arise on Commons when it's a flaw in the
software, but as noted in bug 34332, there's a part of Bugzilla designated for
configuration options, and it's not here! From the perspective of the software
team, this bug is closed, so how's this: I'll re-categorize it to the proper
place.

People watching the site configuration section, please make the above
configuration change for Commons.

yes, please. Just do it if you know that it is just a config change - but don't close bugs.

saibotrash wrote:

add: I may note that if you pull bugs out of the UploadWizard category we "users" are not able to find them anymore (even if we would do so). If the config bugs do not get fixed a long time this will lead to duplicate bugs.

mr.heat wrote:

It took a long time but finally point 1 and 3 from the list are fixed (better description for the "more" link and a working "add category" pattern). But the main point 2 is still open. Make the category permanently visible and not obscured behind a "you can ignore this" link. You can switch it with the useless date field, for example. The date is read from the EXIF tag anyway.

This is a commons specific thing but I don't think any other wiki shall have any problem if its not in the "more info". I will try looking into this soon.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/53046/

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/53046 (Gerrit Change Ibbf1d6f5b686ed4989daac39a619c3a960752359) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by Yuvipanda]

Merged and hopefully fixed.

potato.olivier wrote:

Thank you so much! This is a great improvement.