Forum:Can we edit the Upload Image form?

1. Can we edit the Upload Image form? We want to encourage our users to upload high resolution images whenever possible - and to include a copyright tag. I poked around in the MediaWiki namespace looking for relevant editable text, but couldn't find any.

2. There's a problem with the next dialog box if the filename is long enough to wrap to the next line. In this case the "Insert image" button disappears off the bottom of the window. The window is not resizeable, so the only option is to click "full size" even if you wanted a thumbnail (this makes the button reappear) and then edit the image insertion code afterwards. Not a big deal, since there's a workaround; it's just a bit klunky, and perhaps not everyone discovers the workaround.

Thanks. Beth Ogilvie 01:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki:Uploadtext is the text at the top of the upload form. MediaWiki:Edittools also shows up at the bottom of upload forms and edit pages. Dantman(CGANI)(talk 02:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * And MediaWiki:Licenses for the license dropdownbox. – Smiddle 16:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately MediaWiki:Uploadtext only applies if you click "Upload file" in the navbar. If you click "Insert image" in the editing toolbar, you get Special:MiniUpload which is not editable in the usual way. I'd sure like to be able to edit this too. Presumably the #2 problem above is also the fault of this file. Beth Ogilvie 20:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! How concerned should we be about the warning we get when uploading something larger than 150KB? Does Wikia have a problem storing bigger files, or is the concern just how long it'll take someone to download a bigger file? We have a number of things that really need to be bigger- audio files, some big PDFs, high res pictures, etc. Beth Ogilvie 18:27, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I always thought it was to conserve server space. I wouldn't worry about user's downloading high-size images because MediaWiki displays a thumbnail to readers which is actually shrunk, so they never have issues with images being to big. You can only make them to small when you have that kind of system. Though, it may actually be more of an issue with some browsers having more issues uploading larger images, and PHP's built in 2MB post size limit. Though they may have expanded that on Wikia using a trick I heard of. Also going with that license dropdown, I'm also working on a .js license builder which would work a little differently but would actualy support things like adding info for the user type license tag. And adding the url to openclipart licensed images. ~Dantman(talk) 18:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)