Feature summary
Allow contributors to add multilingual captions (MediaInfo labels) for uploaded media during the Clip2Commons upload workflow.
Use case(s)
Captions provide a short, language-specific description of a media file and are an important part of Structured Data on Commons.
Currently, contributors who want to provide captions in multiple languages must:
- Upload the media using Clip2Commons.
- Open the uploaded file page on Wikimedia Commons.
- Open the Structured Data editor.
- Add captions individually for each language.
- Save the changes.
This additional workflow discourages contributors from adding multilingual captions, resulting in many uploaded files having limited or no language-specific descriptions.
Clip2Commons should allow contributors to enter one or more captions during the upload process and publish them as MediaInfo labels after a successful upload.
Benefits
- Encourages contributors to provide multilingual descriptions during upload.
- Improves accessibility for users browsing Commons in different languages.
- Makes uploaded media easier to discover through multilingual search.
- Reduces the need for manual post-upload edits.
- Improves the completeness and quality of Structured Data on Commons metadata.