On 11/12/06, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem is
you can't get in touch with the majority of uploaders, and you don't
have enough people to get in touch with the ones you can. That is very
hard to fix.
Exactly.
This is why David's claims that we're just whining is just a load of rubbish.
If an eswiki hits upload, he's brought to commons and told to make an
account. He makes one, uploads, and then goes back to eswiki where he
probably doesn't have an account. We can leave messages until we turn
blue in the face. He'll never get them.
If he uploaded locally, he'd be able to get messages from local
users... if not right away, then hopefully the next day because his
browser will still be logged in. Not a sure thing, but much better.
Once we have (1) SUL (with log login logs in them all), (2) cross
project message notices (which is not planned AFAIK), then we'll be
doing better but even then there are problems. They create an account,
upload, we leave a message but we couldn't tell what language they
speak.. so the message is either in the wrong languge or using one of
our giant multilanguage boilerplate boxes which people obviously
ignore because they look automated and too complex.