Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I don't know the solution, but it sure would
be sweet to have some
means of bulk uploading, for example ftp or something like that.
Personally, I would very much like to see a textbox where one can enter
a URL that Wikipedia will then fetch automatically. In order to allow
bulk upload, one might as well have a textarea where one can enter
several URLs. (I might actually do that myself if no-one beats me to it.)
Yes, I do realise that this makes it easy to upload copyrighted images
from websites. But I don't think that's a problem: The wiki way is not
to make things impossible, but to make things back-tracable and
undoable, so all it needs is to put the URL in the image description,
and everyone can check if it's on a website that has copyrighted images.
Any bulk uploading should probably be limited to admins as its
potential for abuse is pretty evident.
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