Make categories more required-looking
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	MarkTraceur
	Jun 17 2013, 5:48 PM

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From [[:commons:VP]] (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/06#About_the_Upload_Wizard):

Most newbies also don't add any categories, because the upload wizard is not recommending it. If no categories is given, the upload wizard should be giving for example a warning in a red box or with red text that categories should be given.

We obviously can't make categories *required*, since they aren't required, but having better notification of the importance of the field would be good.

Proposed warning popup:

UploadWizard_category_warning_(in_context).png (659×934 px, 26 KB)

See Also:
T33292: Make Category permanently visible, not obscured behind a "more options" link
T39127: UW will not create a category but it tells so

Details

Reference: bz49710

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Unbreak confirmation of no categories being set	mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard	master	+7 -4

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T115010: Non-existent categories seemingly not accepted in the category selector when uploading a file
rEUWIb48e3be24a00: Unbreak confirmation of no categories being set
rMEXT0c0555df525d: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard…
Mentioned Here: T33292: Make Category permanently visible, not obscured behind a "more options" link
T39127: UW will not create a category but it tells so
T52352: Warning trigged for no category although a category was added to all files with the "copy metadata" function

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:59 AM

• bzimport added a project: UploadWizard.

• bzimport set Reference to bz49710.

MarkTraceur created this task.Jun 17 2013, 5:48 PM

Mark, linking to the section would be helpful.

Maybe a dialog saying:

"Are you sure you want to proceed without adding any categories?
Adding a category is recommended for blah blah reasons."

with options: "Yes, No" could be used.

(In reply to comment #1)

Mark, linking to the section would be helpful.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=98384214#About_the_Upload_Wizard

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/69284 (Gerrit Change I72ed4a357d09d7ba5b1ebf5cb6e19f580f4860ea)

Oh, ack.

So, I +2ed this change and Jenkins will merge it, but ideally we should come back and make this configurable per-wiki, so that wikis not using categories can remove the dialog. DO NOT CLOSE THIS BUG unless that's done.

It would make sense to make the categories required, *if* we also made the description /not/ required at the same time. (As asked e.g. at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback&diff=prev&oldid=132609261 )

However, to avoid running in the same problems as with bug 49709, the category system should first be multilingual. :O

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Nov 24 2014, 3:12 PM

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This functionality was subsequently broken soon after being introduced by T52352 / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/71277 (the category "Uploaded with UploadWizard", which is added to all uploads, is counted and thus UW thinks all uploads have a category added). No one saw the dialog added here in the past two years. Is this functionality still desired and should I fix it, or should I remove the dead code?

matmarex claimed this task.Sep 18 2015, 1:12 PM

Change 239418 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
Unbreak confirmation of no categories being set

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/239418

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 18 2015, 5:13 PM

matmarex added a project: User-notice.Sep 18 2015, 5:14 PM

Is this functionality still desired and should I fix it, or should I remove the dead code?

I think several users still desire it, but there never was clarity on a consensus. Hence, it's useful to fix it, but even better would be to keep it disabled by default and let a new discussion decide whether to use it on Commons.

matej_suchanek updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 20 2015, 9:16 AM

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Johan moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.Sep 23 2015, 11:48 AM

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Categories_.22looking_more_required.22_in_UploadWizard

matmarex updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 24 2015, 2:39 PM

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El_Grafo added a project: Commons.Sep 25 2015, 9:59 AM

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Change 239418 merged by jenkins-bot:
Unbreak confirmation of no categories being set

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/239418

Diffusion mentioned this in rMEXT0c0555df525d: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard….Sep 28 2015, 1:59 PM

matmarex mentioned this in rEUWIb48e3be24a00: Unbreak confirmation of no categories being set.Sep 28 2015, 2:02 PM

This change will be deployed to Commons this Wednesday.

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In T51710#1667265, @matmarex wrote:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Categories_.22looking_more_required.22_in_UploadWizard

Only one comment... https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Proposals&oldid=173824375#Categories_.22looking_more_required.22_in_UploadWizard

At least it didn't affect this round of WikiLovesMonuments.

Johan moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Recently announced in Tech/News on the User-notice board.Oct 8 2015, 8:23 AM

Aklapper mentioned this in T115010: Non-existent categories seemingly not accepted in the category selector when uploading a file.Oct 8 2015, 1:44 PM

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