Commons:WMF support for Commons/Upload Wizard Improvements
Part of the Commons support for the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 will be directed towards improving the current user experience with Upload Wizard as part of objective and key result 1.2 (“Complete improvements to four workflows that improve the experience of editors with extended rights”).
Our aims are:
- To improve the Commons upload experience for users.
- To attempt to decrease the burden for contributors with extended rights by minimizing the possibility of uploading media that might trigger a deletion request.
User research[edit]
In July 2023, we conducted user research with participants from 12 countries about the common issues users face when uploading images.
The report highlighted several points in which the experience of uploading new media on Wikimedia Commons can be improved, giving more context and explanations about licensing and the general rules of the project, explaining better what to do when uploading media that is not the own work of the uploader, and possibly revamping the current Upload Wizard to make it more user friendly.
Focuses of the project[edit]
This project will focus first on Upload Wizard design improvements, starting from the user research results we conducted. We will focus on design improvements around the “own work” versus “not my own work” workflows, which will also include improving option selection and exploring the possibility of adding machine detection “speed bumps.”
The second part of the project will focus on flagging potentially problematic content based on the most common reasons for deletion. Based on an analysis we conducted in July-August 2023, the most common reasons are “copyright violations” (including violations of freedom of panorama, derivative works and threshold of originality), and “project scope.”
Success Criteria[edit]
- Qualitative feedback from users, user testing of upload process improvements
- Decrease the percentage of uploaded media that become deletion requests
What’s out of scope?[edit]
- Full Upload Wizard redesign (although more improvements might be considered in the next iterations)
- Optimization of Commons’ deletion queues
- Creation of a new anti-copyvio tool
Screenshots & Prototypes[edit]
Choosing "Own work" vs. "Not own work" workflow[edit]
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Mockup of the proposed modifications to "Release rights" screen
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Mockup of the proposed modifications to "Own work" screen
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Mockup of the proposed modifications to "Not own work" screen
There is also a prototype of the proposed changes to the "Release rights" workflow, accessible at the following link (some links or functions may not work as expected due to prototyping limitation).
Project Contacts[edit]
If you want to know more about the project or to ask a question, you can reach out to:
- Benedict Udeh, Community Relations Specialist
- User:Sannita (WMF), Community Relations Specialist