User talk:Jorshiac

In response to your feedback
To upload a file, you have to be autoconfirmed, meaning you have had an account for four days and made ten edits.

Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:42, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

&#160; Calliopejen1,

Thanks for the information, I did eventually learn this information with research, but it is not very intuitive on the interface, so I was leaving feedback to let the admins know about a function that I expect many users would use which is not easy to figure out on your interface.

When I decided to edit a page (a novel for example) and it needed a cover image, I looked on the edit toolbar for something that might help me understand how to get an image to appear. I found the Embedded File button which works great for a file that was already uploaded, but found no information on uploading a file. I checked the help button on the toolbar for more infomation and found nothing on uploading files so they could be embedded. I think it might be a good idea to put at least a link to the wiki page about uploading in the help button somewhere.

Something as simple as this text would work well in my opinion on the Files section of the Help button. It helps users get to the right place and gives the correct message if the user does not meet some sort of criteria or restriction when wishing to perform an upload: "In order to embed a file, it must first be uploaded to our site."

Another question I have is regarding the wikimedia commons and image uploading over there. If I upload an image to that area, is it available to wikipedia pages? If so, is there anything special I need to do to reference it?

Jorshiac (talk) 00:01, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not really sure who's in charge of the interface (as a user here for 7+ years), so I'm not really sure where to relay your feedback. Wikipedia knows generally that its interface really sucks and has been working to improve it. Hopefully someone else more knowledgeable will find your comment in the feedback stream.  Any image uploaded to commons is available in Wikipedia (that's the whole point of Commons actually, so images can be used by every language's Wikipedia).  You just use the normal image code, and it will pull the Commons file as though it had been uploaded locally. Note though that a book cover is probably non-free (copyrighted), so it would need to be uploaded locally. Commons only accepts free files (public domain or freely licensed.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:48, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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