User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-188432-20110909003040

Another issue has to do with adding pictures. If you upload a picture via the "add picture" button on an edit page, you completely bypass any screen which ever presents you with the dropdown created by MediaWiki:Licenses. This means the automatic creation of uncategorized files. That means that admin will have to be stationed "at the gate", constantly monitoring Special:UncategorizedFiles like a goalie on the ice. And frankly, that's not what I signed up for when I became an admin. Helping people, sure. Organizing things, fine. But having to categorize every new picture that's uploaded? No, come on, force the "add picture" button to go to Special:Upload, or put the Licenses dropdown on the lightbox.

Beyond questions of administrative convenience, there's also the, y'know, legal aspect of it all. Since most of our wikis use some kinda content to which neither we as individual editors, or you as Wikia, Inc., have copyright, it's gotta be bad to not make any attempt to alert end users to the copyright status of a work.

C'mon — it's a positive bug that the new editor allows users to add pictures to the wiki without appropriate licensing.