User blog comment:Magma MK-II/UCP Image Uploader Feedback/@comment-4368470-20200831050610

(This is cross-posted from the #fandom-feedback channel on the official FANDOM Discord server)

I agree with some of the feedback you wrote in that blog @Magma MK-II (too many wikis), though a few of the steps that you categorize as simply extra and "unnecessary" I think are good additions that were honestly missing from the image uploader before.

I'm very glad they added the checkbox that people have to check to adhere to the image policies of the wikis. It prevents people from just blindly uploading crap that might not be legal for them to upload or might not be in accordance with the wiki's naming policy or fanart policy or whatever. Users can no longer constantly say "Oh, I had no idea" when they upload that kind of stuff, and they'll (ideally) have a link to what those exact policies are before uploading a picture for the first time so they might actually read them.

Even if it doesn't cut down on the number of ignorant uploaders HUGELY, imo it would still be worth it to have even if a tenth of new users saw it and then read the policies and realized "oh, this OC pic I was about to upload to the official wiki isn't allowed on here, so I guess this isn't the place to post it." On a different note, I do agree with you that it gives you a useless page with info about the pic you just uploaded

The "Description" it has you type which you said "isn't used anywhere" is actually used on the file's page, I believe, to describe what the image is.

Previously the Description was left blank by default and users would have to go in after the image was uploaded to add one on the file's page.

I suppose you could argue about how useful the Description of an image on its page is in the first place. I don't feel super strongly about that one way or the other.

Also, to alleviate some of the frustration you feel with the multiple clicks you now have to do to upload an image, I think that some of it might be able to be resolved by having more info displayed on one page. (instead of having an entire UI screen dedicated to JUST checking a box before showing the next stuff).