Forum:Categorizing uploaded content as Images, Videos and Files

If Special:PrefixIndex had a Display pages with suffix: companion to Display pages with prefix: then I would not even bother with these categories.

I like that when uploading files to wikia the interface provides a listbox presenting the various licenses (copyright notices) for a user to choose among. At the wiki I am working on right now I use those license templates to add all uploads into an Uploads category but I think I'd like for users to further categorize each uploaded file into one of 3 broad categories: (or possibly one of 5 specific categories)
 * 1) Images
 * 2) Videos
 * 3) Files
 * 4) * Audio files
 * 5) * OpenOffice.org files
 * 6) * ZIP files

Currently I must rely on a user to remember to use the albeit conveninent Category GUI after each file is uploaded. That is not too much to ask I know however, I wonder if it might be possible to customize the upload interface window to add 3 (or 5) radio buttons labeled per the above list or just another listbox if t ha tis not too confusing.

Even better
Better than asking the user to do this categorization I'd prefer for the filename extension to trigger categorization appropriately. viz.
 * Images:png, gif, jpg, jpeg, ico, xcf, svg,
 * Videos: ??? .. mmm ... I must not have that option enabled for the wiki in question
 * Audio files: ogg, mid,
 * PDF files: pdf,
 * OpenOffice.org files: odt, ods, odp, odg, odc, odf, odi, odm,
 * ZIP files: zip

Has anybody figured out an elegant way of encouraging the categorization of uploaded content? --najevi 05:33, November 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Why would you categorize based on the extension? That doesn't make much sense, since there's really no way to trigger an auto-categorization there. If you want an auto-categorization, you should have a category included on all of your licensing templates. When the user selects a licensing template from the drop down menu or manually adds it to the summary box on Special:Upload, the category would be automatically added since it would be part of the template. That would mean rather than having categories like "Category:JPEG images," you'd have "Category:Fair use images," "Category:Screenshots," "Category:Promotional images," etc. to coincide with templates you can use such as,  ,  , etc., respectively. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 07:27, November 8, 2009 (UTC)