Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200723182124/@comment-3095612-20200729064155

1. Multiple Photo Upload

Before the UCP update, at the bottom of the screen, there is a My Tools bar where we can look at what links to the article, a Multiple Upload image page, etc). After the UCP update, the Multiple Upload image page is no longer an option (at Community Central, it's still live but at other wikis that have been updated to UCP no longer have it). The link would be this: https://nameofwikihere.fandom.com/wiki/Special:MultipleUpload

When you type in where you got the image file from, all you do to you was type in for example, "grab from Comic #4" into the summary blank once on the Multi-Upload page when you're picking images to upload. And when the images upload, that line is applied to all summary blanks of all image files uploaded.

I am aware that currently if one were to edit any article, there is a Mass Upload button (the seventh icon from the left) that performs the same function as the Multiple Upload image however, it lacks other options. Say if have 20 or more images to upload at once, you now have to edit the 20 or more images pages individually with "grab from Comic #4" in the summary section where one notates where the image file originates from. In my experience, I sometimes have to upload 100 image files in one night. And sometimes I need to look back at an image file and see where the source was.

I understand that for some, that doesn't matter where it's from but at some wikis, having the source of the image given cuts down on time staff spend investigating where a dubious file came from and if was stolen without permission. This saved a lot of time and was very efficient, especially for a big workload that needed to get done in one day/night. Now, that time saver is gone and we're left with a really great option with holes in it. I would like to see the Multiple Upload of images page from before UCP to return.

If anything, perhaps another option is to just replace the Upload Image at the bottom of the page with Multiple Upload because even if you have 1 or 2 images to upload, you can still do that in the Multiple Upload page.

2. Classic Editor

I was an ardent supporter and user of the RTE Classic Editor rather than visual or source editor. I was saddened to see it not survive the UCP update. I felt that the layout, design, and options organized in the 'second column' on the right (to input reason for change, adding categories, preview, etc.) to be much more efficient for me when I'm editing. I would like to see it brought back as an option of editor tool to pick from or a new version of it to be created. Basically, a option to customize how you want the editor window to look.