Currently all uploading tools, except cross-wiki, has a page where they get to chose form "is this from the web, your own, etc." or "which license and source does this image have"? Cross-wiki choses another approach, which is borderline dangerous and reckless for the Commons comunity, who has to clean up this mess.
Cross-wiki only allows users to choose "Own work" and the license "CC-by-sa 4.0", not even offerering a drop down menue for either of these things, or a blank field text box.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T128566 Allow specialized licensing options for specialized wikis in in-editor upload feature | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T70770 Use GPS location to deliver locally relevant messages about copyright (for people uploading pictures) | ||
| Open | None | T140068 Provide a mechanism for site admins to hide the "This is my own work" checkbox for third party wikis which don't care | |||
| Open | None | T121012 Cross-wiki-upload: Allow users to specify source and specific license | |||
| Open | None | T121631 Make UploadWizard independent of its special page and embeddable elsewhere |
This is too big a task for us to take on currently. T120867 is smaller and should reduce the amount of license problems via the tool.
Then it should not have been pushed and released in the first place if you cant fix flaws with the system.
I don't see the aspect of you being understaffed changes the priority or severity of this bug
Priority is explicitly the field we use to determine what we are going to work on. This bug is a low priority for us, even if it's a high priority for you. If you want to work on it, you're welcome to - you can claim it and set the priority to whatever you'd like.
Actually, I'm not convinced that this is the right move for simple uploads. We want to make it "easy" to do the right thing, and as soon as you deviate (like wanting to upload someone else's stuff) you need to go through a different process.
+1. So maybe add an "Other" option which blocks uploading and has a link to UploadWizard on Commons?
Priority setting is explained here and as MarkTraceur correctly pointed out, anybody (whether volunteer or paid by some org) is welcome to work on tasks they are interested to see fixed. Bugs, oversights, and unexpected situations do happen in software development and at least in the product area WMF plans to improve the current process (feedback welcome).
That's already linked; it was highlighted when you picked a 'wrong' option in one of the options in the recent A/B test, but results of that aren't out yet.