Author: arnomane
Description:
[[Special:Upload]] of MediaWiki incorporates [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] like any edit of a normal page. In
contrast to normal text pages Special:Upload is concentrated on uploading of files and that the uploader
does the licensing issue well and not on editing texts.
So using proper special characters in the upload summary is a very very low priority, as people need
actively being educated writing any plain text summary at all and you can always edit the image page
later in the usual way and enter nice special characters and such in case you haven't the desired ones on
your keyboard (which is very unlikely as you will most times enter the description either in english or
in your native language).
Currently (after a larger size reduction) MediaWiki:Edittools of Wikimedia Commons is ~2cm high [1]. So a
removal of MediaWiki:Edittools from Special:Upload only would save quite some screen space at the upload
form (the upload page of Wikimedia Commons [2] would easily fit in average font size on a 1152 x 864
pixel screen without MediaWiki:Edittools). A further advantage would be that the browser would not
display scrollbars which additionally saves screen space and makes the interface visually more
comprehensible with one view.
So this would make the upload form looking less complex and people will visually concentrate better on
the real important licensing things at upload.
Pages at Commons:
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
Platform: Other