Just FYI, currently the second button (the pencil icon) allows users to enter a text-based date, which could be useful in cases where we know only partially the date (i.e. only the year of publication). Just checking if we got this use case considered too.

+1 to @Sannita - worth looking at the wikidata date interface for this (see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dates)

Oh, one other thing - I think we should make sure to record this directly into the inception structured data property as well as into the date field in Template:Information

@Sannita the text input is editable so users can enter partial dates.

@Cparle would those properties allow for storing partial dates? Also feel free to add the structured data property we want to add this to in the acceptance criteria in description

Yes, but it's more involved than just storing text like "between 1801 and 1805" - instead we'd have store the data "1800 CE" with precision 8 (meaning precision at the level of decades) and then add the qualifiers earliest date: 1801 and latest date:1085

Change #1041681 had a related patch set uploaded (by Marco Fossati; author: Marco Fossati):

[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] Describe step: improve the date field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1041681

@Cparle - There is a bunch of code already written for translating dates into Wikidata inception datetimes. See:
https://github.com/multichill/toollabs/blob/40bb7b9b838998d7ac1479d045914dcaab642847/bot/wikidata/rkdimages_importer.py#L414
https://github.com/multichill/toollabs/blob/40bb7b9b838998d7ac1479d045914dcaab642847/bot/wikidata/artdatabot.py#L538
It's all Python, but the important parts are just RegEx and complicated if/else trees. Hopefully some of the logic could be translated.

Thanks @Nosferattus - there's already a wikidata api endpoint for this, so I we're planning to use that

Change #1041681 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] Describe step: improve the date field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1041681

cc @Etonkovidova

The following AC messages are missing

• If the file is ‘own work’ and has a date in the EXIF show that date in the date field by default with a message as shown here
• If the user proceeds without entering the date show the error message as shown here

In T362328#9955022, @Sneha wrote:

cc @Etonkovidova

The following AC messages are missing

• If the file is ‘own work’ and has a date in the EXIF show that date in the date field by default with a message as shown here
• If the user proceeds without entering the date show the error message as shown here

Yes, I noticed that too. I filed T369324: [beta] UploadWizard - saving empty Date filed triggers TypeError which might be an indication of why an error/warning messages are not displayed.

For @Sneha review:

• I re-checked after T369324 was fixed and the following spec is done:

• If the user proceeds without entering the date show the error message as shown here

• the spec about giving a warning that the date is EXIF is still not present:

• If the file is ‘own work’ and has a date in the EXIF show that date in the date field by default with a message as shown here

• (a minor note) the placeholder text from the figma mockup is not present. The "Select a date" placeholder text is consistent with the placeholder text that is in production now.

figma	commons beta	production commons wmf.12

@Etonkovidova Thanks.
@mfossati I am moving this back to doing as we have one AC missing

In T362328#9961872, @Sneha wrote:

@mfossati I am moving this back to doing as we have one AC missing

@Sneha I think this will be addressed by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard/+/1051758, is that right @matthiasmullie ?

Actually partially addressed, see T369053#9962162.