Description
The goal of this project is to reduce badly uploaded media content on Commons by making improvements to the uploading process through Upload Wizard (UW). This would help reduce moderator burden further down the Commons funnel. See project page.

As part of the upload wizard improvement project we released improvements to the Release rights step of the upload wizard - See T347298 for details.

The next step is to improve the Describe step of the upload wizard. Based on the Design discovery T358614, we will focus on:

• Redesign the Describe step so that uploaders can provide us with the relevant information on their uploads more easily.
• Reduce number of steps (where possible) so that users can publish the media in fewer steps. This may not only enrich the information associated with media but also help moderators in assessing problematic media through all the information provided by the uploader.
• Provide contextual education to users about what media they can or cannot upload so that we can reduce the number of problematic uploads.
• Explore introducing questions that could help with further moderation of FOP.

Use cases

As a moderator, I want that uploads to Commons contain all necessary information for assessing problematic media in an easy way.

As a user, when uploading media through Upload Wizard on Commons,

I want to understand which details I am asked to add to my upload in an easy way,
I want to add all the necessary information,

So that it complies with Commons guidelines and so that it could be easily reusable in the ecosystem.

Scope

• Improve the Use step in the upload wizard T361045
• Improve the Depicts field interaction in the upload wizard T361053
• Improve the file name, caption, and description fields T361049
• Improve the Categories field interaction in the upload wizard T361050
• Improve the Location field interaction in the upload wizard T361052
• Add the date created/published question to the release rights step in upload wizard T361054
• Update the 'other information' field in upload wizard T361061
• Update the footer in upload wizard T361068
• Update the "copy information" feature in describe step for multiple uploads T361062
• [NTH] Restyle the release right step to match the improved describe step form T361055

Out of scope of this project

• Improvements of other parts of Upload Wizard on Commons
• Improvements of other parts of Commons
• Improvements of media upload process on other projects (Wikipedia visual editor and source editor)
• Implementation of algorithms for automatically flagging potential content on upload