[WikiEN-l] Image upload and tagging

Mon Aug 23 04:45:08 UTC 2004

It's probably been suggested a quadzillion times, but what with all the 
image and tagging issues we're currently ruminating on:

Why don't we simply make tags mandatory ''when uploading''?
Add a ''mandatory'' list form to [[Special:Upload]] -- so that you can 
''only'' upload if you pick a choice.
Then automatically insert the corresponding tag depending on what the 
user picks (the tag should still remain editable later, of course, but 
at least it's there for starters).

Let's be generous at first and include ''all'' the tags in that list, 
even the ones we don't really like that much. -- At least we're going 
to ''have'' tags (where we previously often had none.)
I'd even add a choice of "Other" to the list, whereby, if you pick 
that, you gotta make a mandatory entry into a freeform field and, say, 
an {{other}} tag will then be attached as well.

We can still become more restrictive later, but isn't it high time we 
took this simple step?

I for one was just about to upload some image and I shamefully realized 
that I've often simply forgotten a tag in the past -- simply because 
it's not mandatory.

Thoughts?

- Jens