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Interceptor7 posted this comment on 15 June 2013 ( view all feedback).
Filled in form correctly. It doesn't upload.
Any thoughts?
I tried too it doesn't upload :( Dianasweetiegina ( talk) 02:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
ElAsturiano posted this comment on 25 June 2013 ( view all feedback).
I have completed all the required fields and the upload button will not become active AND nothing tells me what am I missing or doing wrong. I am viewing this page on chrome on a MBP 15" retina.
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I propose this edit: s/most US state and local agencies/[[Copyright status of work by U.S. subnational governments|most US state and local agencies]]/
because linking thusly: most US state and local agencies is informative.
I propose this edit: s/any file you found somewhere, even if you have good reason to believe its owner would not mind us using it, but you don't have an explicit licensing statement from the copyright owner./any file you found somewhere, even if you have good reason to believe it has a copyright owner who would not mind us using it, but you don't have an explicit licensing statement from them./ Reason for change: Let's try to avoid contradiction; we CAN use, e.g. public domain files, even WITHOUT an explicit licensing statement from the owner.
I propose this edit: s/any file that is licensed for use exclusively on Wikipedia, or is free except that is excludes commercial purposes./any file that is licensed for use exclusively on Wikipedia, or is free except that the free license excludes commercial use./ Reason for change: Fix grammar error; refine.-- Elvey ( talk) 00:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
The wizard appears not to be working. The "Upload" button remains "greyed out" even after all the relevant information has been submitted. Can someone help? Mooretwin ( talk) 11:24, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Firefox on Kubuntu, Firefox freezes and crashes YamaPlos talk 15:06, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Same issue. I select the file, fill out the name and description, select "This is some other kind of non-free work that I believe is legitimate Fair Use", fill out all the fields, and "Upload file" is still greyed out. I also notice that there's a red asterisk sitting in the middle of the "Step 3" form with no blank to fill out anywhere near it. I tried reloading the page and it's still exactly the same.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 17:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
I marked the following feedback ( details) as useful:
because it appears wikipedia does indeed display an upload form with three steps even if the user account is unconfirmed. I just tested with a new account named unconfirmedtest84user (no contributions). Here is what I saw (I bolded all the text):
Your account has not become confirmed yet.
Sorry, in order to upload files on the English Wikipedia, you need to have a confirmed account. Normally, your account will become confirmed automatically once you have made 10 edits and four days have passed since you created it.
You may already be able to upload files on the Wikimedia Commons, but you can't do it on the English Wikipedia just yet. You can still use this script to prepare an upload to Commons.
If you don't want to wait until you are autoconfirmed, you may ask somebody else to upload a file for you at Wikipedia:Files for upload. Or you might ask an administrator to make your account confirmed manually at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed.
This was followed by the three upload steps.
The feedback seems valid, why are we displaying a form which appears functional when the user is unconfirmed? Some users could easily skip past the lengthy verbiage at the top and just start filling in the image details. Also, the text "You can still use this script to prepare an upload to Commons." could mislead the user into thinking they could continue anyway. It would appear better to just omit the three steps in this case. - 84user ( talk) 08:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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121.54.54.140 ( talk) 07:55, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
This doesn't provide a great experience for users without JavaScript. The sidebar links to Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard, which then has a big link to the same page with a JS loader. So it's essentially circular, unless someone manages to see the alternatives. The ideal solution would be for the toolbox link (but I'm not sure where this is defined) to link to the next best uploader; that seems to be Wikipedia:Upload/old. Then, the link could be modified in JavaScript to point to this one instead.
For now, it would help to mention that the "old guided form" does not require JavaScript. Superm401 - Talk 21:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
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It's nice to use the returnto feature so people don't get lost after they log in. To do so, change:
Please '''[[Special:UserLogin|log in]]''' and then try again.
to:
Please '''<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto=Wikipedia%3AFile+Upload+Wizard&returntoquery=withJS%3DMediaWiki%253AFileUploadWizard.js}} log in]</span>''' and then try again.
The new version renders as:
Please log in and then try again.
-- Superm401 - Talk 21:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
After uploading I receive the following message:
Your file has been uploaded successfully and can now be found here:
File:Example.jpg
Please follow the link and check that the image description page has all the information you meant to include.
Instead of "Example.jpg" there should appear the new file name.
Croscher ( talk) 15:15, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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Add [[Category:Article Feedback Blacklist]] to the end of the page. It's been enabled twice now here by relatively inexperienced editors, and the feedback here is never useful. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 21:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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Copied from
commons:COM:VP:
Where does this empty stuff in certain uploads come from:
;Other information: {{en| }}
See sample removal. How can the addition to file description pages be avoided in future? -- Leyo 08:55, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Looks like the script isn't checking for input strings that just consist of a space character. We should probably add a line of code somewhere that all input strings should be trim()'ed before they are assembled. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Increasingly, files are being made available for uploading to wikipedia under this license; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Yet the upload wizard seems unclear how to accommodate this classification. The process on Wikipedia Commons is simple in comparison. Graemp ( talk) 12:00, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
I've been trying to upload a pic for an article about a music band, and it keeps telling me that the article doesn't exist, even though it clearly does and I've typed in the article name correctly. I've followed the instructions twice, and it keeps saying this. Any suggestions? -- KetchupRevenge ( talk) 05:11, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I am planning to deploy it in Telugu WP and started localising the messages. It does not seem to work. I have imported JS file and CSS file as well as te:Wikipedia;File_Upload_Wizard page. Am I missing any thing? -- Arjunaraoc ( talk) 14:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Telugu version is producing the following errors when free license and own work is selected the following error message appears Can't find elements: move=AnyOtherInfo(undefined), target=detailsOwnWork([object HTMLDivElement]) following which the string next to Upload button is still in English as given below. "No, I want to upload this file here on this wiki only. This way it can be used only on the English Wikipedia. However, somebody else might still decide to copy it to Commons or use it elsewhere later. If you do not want your file to be copied to Commons and deleted locally, consider adding {{ Keep local}}."
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Boom1pp ( talk) 17:45, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
If I click on the options This is a free work then This file is from a free published source and fill in all the information required, there are three options at the bottom - 'upload to commons', 'upload' and 'reset form' - but the first two stay greyed out and the only one that works is "reset form". I see from the feedback that others seem to have had similar problems - what else do I need to do to upload the file? Richerman (talk) 03:05, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Just tried it out and can't replicate the issue; the upload buttons seem to work fine for me. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:31, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I tried using the Wizard without luck in Internet Explorer. So I used Firefox, and it still works there. Is the code not reading IE right now? --
George Ho (
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Never mind; I realize that Avast anti-virus software is interfering with the Wizard. -- George Ho ( talk) 20:08, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
After the form is filled and "upload locally" button is clicked, the form collapses leaving basically an empty screen in front of the person uploading a file. It would be *really* great if the page could scroll to the top after clicking on that button and form collapse, so people can see what's happening with the upload process. Thoughts? -- Dsimic ( talk) 21:46, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Justlettersandnumbers posted this comment on 30 June 2013 ( view all feedback).
If it's to be a "wizard" then it should offer a full range of options and relevant licences for uploading paintings that cannot be uploaded to commons. I happened to know that PD-US-1923-abroad|2020 was the correct tag for my last upload, but there was no way to choose that as an upload rationale.
Any thoughts?
biswas 13:31, 28 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biswas bidhan santosh ( talk • contribs)
It would be very convenient if one could enter multiple image files on the same screen. In my case I added 7 icons for the same wp page. It would have been much faster to enter several at a time. The idea is to select several images, then add their respective info, one at a time, on the same screen.
It would also be convenient if the original file name were the default saved name.
Also, it would be nice to be able to save images in a test area (instead of just wp or creative commons), since certain images cannot be evaluated without seeing them in a real wp page.
I'm thinking particularly of icons, but it could also apply to diagrams, and maybe even photos.
For this, it would be not problematic if images saved in a test area were restricted to being used in user pages or sandboxes. The key is being able to display the images in a real wp page. This is particularly important if a group must decide together what is to be accepted. (Which is my case.)
Otherwise I find this entry page convenient. I tried some other wp image loading page just before, but it wouldn't accept the license type for some reason. This page accepted everything, and the layout is logical. The reset button is handy as well (once I noticed it).
This page locked up once while loading 6 images, just before selecting the destination. Two of the 3 buttons at that point were greyed out. I had to reload the page and re-enter everything for that file. André437 ( talk) 13:30, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedia folks, Excellent tool -- thank-you. I suggest that you warn users upfront on the wizard page (and maybe other relevant pages) that they may only upload images that are immediately headed for an existing article (e.g., not a sandboxed article) and therefore that their images can be uploaded only once the article text has been published. I know that this is a bit redundant and you do say this but it seems counter-intuitive (to me) that an article can't be completed before it's published (I hope I have this right!) Thanks. Sternthinker ( talk) 18:45, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Please change:
|name = Uploading media files
|title = Uploading media files
|navbar = plain
|state = plain
|listclass = hlist
|group1 = Alternative upload methods
|list1 =
* [[:commons:Special:UploadWizard|Commons Wizard]] (recommended for free files)
* [[:commons:Commons:Upload|Commons (old form)]]
* [[Special:Upload|plain form]] (for experienced users)
* [[Wikipedia:Upload/old|old guided form]]
|group2 = Help and guidelines
|list2 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|ask copyright questions]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Image use policy|image use policy]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[WP:NFC|non-free content]]</span>
|group3 = This program
|list3 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:MediaWiki:FileUploadWizard.js|script code]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc|documentation]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discuss this program]]</span>
near the bottom of the page to:
|name = Uploading media files
|title = Uploading media files
|navbar = plain
|state = plain
|listclass = hlist
|group1 = Alternative upload methods
|list1 =
* [[:commons:Special:UploadWizard|Commons Wizard]] (recommended for free files)
* [[:commons:Commons:Upload|Commons (old form)]]
* [[:commons:Special:Upload|Commons (plain form)]] (for experienced users)
* [[Special:Upload|plain form]] (for experienced users)
* [[Wikipedia:Upload/old|old guided form]]
|group2 = Help and guidelines
|list2 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|ask copyright questions]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Image use policy|image use policy]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[WP:NFC|non-free content]]</span>
|group3 = This program
|list3 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:MediaWiki:FileUploadWizard.js|script code]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc|documentation]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discuss this program]]</span>
So that experienced users like myself can have a direct link to the plain Special:Upload form on Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. Thank you. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( t • e • c) 20:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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Please also remove [[Category:Article Feedback Blacklist]]. Feedback on this page is useful. Q.E.D.. -- Elvey ( talk) 03:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Reset button should not be along with the submit button as the user may accedently click on it and oh all his filled up form gone. Or there should be a confirmation popup box to reset the form. UBS talk 09:59, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Damir Petic — Preceding unsigned comment added by Autentic ( talk • contribs) 12:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Include a way to attach written permission forms for the use of images. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rogcraigvogel ( talk • contribs) 19:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
How can I localize this wizard to one of the sister Wikipedias? The current wizard is Special:Upload, which should be replaced by File Upload Wizard. I have enough rights there. Can anyone guide me on this? -- Anton Talk 09:56, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I want to overwrite the old image. It is non-contentious, but I will need to change the description (eg. for resolving issues.)
User:GKFX talk 16:12, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Otherwise, the old image appears, and we think "I'm going to have to re-upload", which doesn't resolve it. User:GKFX talk 16:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I've created Template:Editnotices/Protection/Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard, which is displayed instead of the normal protection banner. Hopefully, that will stop the flood of bogus edit requests placed here. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 16:47, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
From what I understand there's been a couple reports at commons of people using this tool but not having a license entered into the description page. For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=File:Sea_Hill_Lighthouse._Curtis_Island,_Australia,_May_2011.jpg&oldid=125117262 which was uploaded by user:PeterMarquisKyle (See also discussion at https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=User_talk:Jarekt&oldid=125692062#File:Sea_Hill_Lighthouse._Curtis_Island.2C_Australia.2C_May_2011.jpg ). There may be a bug in this tool related to the license selection process. Bawolff ( talk) 19:38, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
I had a question about copyright. When the person photographed and the photographer both have died eighty years ago, is it a violation of copyright to use the photograph ? The photograph is being used everywhere in books, magazines etc, because in India an item is copyright free after 50 years of the death of the creator of the item Shankar Sen ( talk) 13:05, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
In the Upload Wizard, when uploading multiple images that all belong in the same category it would be nice to be able to designate the category ONCE rather than for each image. Can this be made an option? Thanks.
-- 174.126.247.156 ( talk) 21:36, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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Currently the page MediaWiki:UploadScriptDemo.js contains invalid JS code (the wiki markup for a redirect). Could someone delete it? Helder.wiki 21:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC) Helder.wiki 21:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! Could someone apply these changes to the script? Helder.wiki 20:52, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello English Wikipedia community. We, at the Persian Wikipedia, are looking for a wizard like this for uploading tasks. Are we permitted to localize this wizard and use it in the Persian language Wikipedia? I mean, is this wizard a Free Software? Or, do you have any plan to release it as a free software? Thanks. -- Bkouhi ( talk) 16:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I have just attempted to upload two .jpg images: A beer bottle cap and a Taedonggang, 640ml bottle of beer. The cap went well but the bottle more difficult. At the first and second attempts, the uploader rotated it through 90 degrees anti-clockwise. Thinking that this might be caused by the image being greater in height than in width, I widened the image so that it was of greater width than height: this did not work. I therefore rotated the image an extra 90 deg. clockwise: this worked. The uploader rotated it 90 deg anticlockwise, thus rendering it correct.
The photo of the bottle was taken in portrait mode and cropped. I can only think that the uploader is reading the exif data rather than simply storing the image as supplied.
Has anyone else had this problem?
3 of my files have been deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eiji Mendoza ( talk • contribs) 00:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
I uploaded File:Futurikon logo.png while I was still creating the stub at Futurikon, and of course got a message saying that the article in which I was proposing to use this non-free image did not exist. So far so good.
But the only way I found to recover without completely resetting the form, even after creating the article, was to put a dummy article name into the box. The form did not reset when I re-entered the article name that now existed. When I entered a different article name (one that existed but in which I had no intention of using the image), it reset and I was then able to enter the real one.
No damage done. But this is probably not going to be an unusual scenario, and an inexperienced editor would probably have found themselves re-entering all the information. That was the only obvious way out that the wizard offered.
And it was frustrating enough for me. To need to re-enter all the information for this one glitch, or use this mildly creative work-around... I think we can do better.
Just a suggestion. The wizard as is is already an asset IMO. Andrewa ( talk) 20:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Very nice that the wizard leads you through the process one step at a time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanya Pretorius ( talk • contribs) 12:18, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Preferred over old method. Not sure what changed since I last uploaded, but it felt simpler. Thmazing ( talk) 18:30, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
If that is your wish, why wait until users are half way through the Wikipedia upload process to tell them?? Put the text you have now in that regard at top of page, do ya' think?
I've uploaded a photo and went to the article page to insert it, but it isn't visible/usable. Should I wait 5 minutes? How long does it take? The upload page would be easier for newbies if it had a go button, after you've ticked the boxes. PatrickGuinness ( talk) 18:14, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
it's not letting me upload photos to my wiki ".
What do i do?" — Preceding
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During the "Upload file" process, using the "Upload Wizard", there is no option for book covers. Only "titlepage of a book". The titlepage is not the same as the cover. There is no cover option. Have book covers been deprecated? -- Green C 14:35, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Masem:. I don't have access to edit the page, but can view source and here is the relevant section:
In the sentence "This is the titlepage of a book", simply change "titlepage" -> "cover or titlepage". That would make it unambiguous and cover all bases. -- Green C 14:29, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Why is it that when you upload an image of a company logo it is required to tick a box saying that it will be the "primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question"? There should be a second tick box for if you are uploading a logo from a dis-banded company and it will not go at the top of the page. -- Emitewiki2 ( talk) 23:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
For the last 24 hours I have been trying to upload an image, but each time the image fails load. Anyone else having this issue.-- Dcheagle • talk • contribs 21:21, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Not knowing much about how to create or edit wizards, is there any way to prevent, or at least warn users against uploading large non-free images? Per the minimal usage criterion, fair use images should be no bigger than a 400x400 square, and preferably smaller than 100,000 pixels, but I see large, even huge images uploaded. As simple as it is to tag with {{ Non-free reduce}}, it would be nice to be able to skip that step. Thanks. Mosmof ( talk) 04:55, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
My suggestion is to change the name to "Upload media", and I think so because it's just a place to upload media, not files in general. This may sound disagreeable, but it probably would make more sense. Gamingforfun365 ( talk) 04:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
When one selects the free license, own work option, one is only presented with four choices: CC-BY-SA-3.0 with optional GFDL, CC-BY-3.0 or CC0. Should we not add the version 4 licenses to the menu given that they have several advantages in terms of internationalisation, ease of reuse and legible legal code? How would we do that? BethNaught ( talk) 20:08, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
var licenseLists = {…
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Fut.Perf.
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22:53, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Under "this is a free work" I have Qs about 2 options:
I think most sources of images don't address this stuff, makes finding images hard. Ranze ( talk) 11:59, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Assuming that it handles the copyright issues in a satisfactory manner, this was an easy way to upload low-resolution images of the covers of several books. The steps were easy to understand. The flakiness has to do with activating the Upload button. At first it was grayed out. I activated the down arrow on the field whose default is "None" (don't recall its name), and that seems to have fixed the problem. In any event, the problem got fixed and the file uploaded without event. I've done it on two covers so far, with three or four to go. My images were 100 dpi, but I have no idea if that is acceptable, or if a higher resolution would also be acceptable. It would be good if the wizard said something about resolution. Lou Sander ( talk) 15:38, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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Interceptor7 posted this comment on 15 June 2013 ( view all feedback).
Filled in form correctly. It doesn't upload.
Any thoughts?
I tried too it doesn't upload :( Dianasweetiegina ( talk) 02:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
ElAsturiano posted this comment on 25 June 2013 ( view all feedback).
I have completed all the required fields and the upload button will not become active AND nothing tells me what am I missing or doing wrong. I am viewing this page on chrome on a MBP 15" retina.
Any thoughts?
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I propose this edit: s/most US state and local agencies/[[Copyright status of work by U.S. subnational governments|most US state and local agencies]]/
because linking thusly: most US state and local agencies is informative.
I propose this edit: s/any file you found somewhere, even if you have good reason to believe its owner would not mind us using it, but you don't have an explicit licensing statement from the copyright owner./any file you found somewhere, even if you have good reason to believe it has a copyright owner who would not mind us using it, but you don't have an explicit licensing statement from them./ Reason for change: Let's try to avoid contradiction; we CAN use, e.g. public domain files, even WITHOUT an explicit licensing statement from the owner.
I propose this edit: s/any file that is licensed for use exclusively on Wikipedia, or is free except that is excludes commercial purposes./any file that is licensed for use exclusively on Wikipedia, or is free except that the free license excludes commercial use./ Reason for change: Fix grammar error; refine.-- Elvey ( talk) 00:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
The wizard appears not to be working. The "Upload" button remains "greyed out" even after all the relevant information has been submitted. Can someone help? Mooretwin ( talk) 11:24, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Firefox on Kubuntu, Firefox freezes and crashes YamaPlos talk 15:06, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Same issue. I select the file, fill out the name and description, select "This is some other kind of non-free work that I believe is legitimate Fair Use", fill out all the fields, and "Upload file" is still greyed out. I also notice that there's a red asterisk sitting in the middle of the "Step 3" form with no blank to fill out anywhere near it. I tried reloading the page and it's still exactly the same.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 17:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
I marked the following feedback ( details) as useful:
because it appears wikipedia does indeed display an upload form with three steps even if the user account is unconfirmed. I just tested with a new account named unconfirmedtest84user (no contributions). Here is what I saw (I bolded all the text):
Your account has not become confirmed yet.
Sorry, in order to upload files on the English Wikipedia, you need to have a confirmed account. Normally, your account will become confirmed automatically once you have made 10 edits and four days have passed since you created it.
You may already be able to upload files on the Wikimedia Commons, but you can't do it on the English Wikipedia just yet. You can still use this script to prepare an upload to Commons.
If you don't want to wait until you are autoconfirmed, you may ask somebody else to upload a file for you at Wikipedia:Files for upload. Or you might ask an administrator to make your account confirmed manually at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed.
This was followed by the three upload steps.
The feedback seems valid, why are we displaying a form which appears functional when the user is unconfirmed? Some users could easily skip past the lengthy verbiage at the top and just start filling in the image details. Also, the text "You can still use this script to prepare an upload to Commons." could mislead the user into thinking they could continue anyway. It would appear better to just omit the three steps in this case. - 84user ( talk) 08:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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121.54.54.140 ( talk) 07:55, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
This doesn't provide a great experience for users without JavaScript. The sidebar links to Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard, which then has a big link to the same page with a JS loader. So it's essentially circular, unless someone manages to see the alternatives. The ideal solution would be for the toolbox link (but I'm not sure where this is defined) to link to the next best uploader; that seems to be Wikipedia:Upload/old. Then, the link could be modified in JavaScript to point to this one instead.
For now, it would help to mention that the "old guided form" does not require JavaScript. Superm401 - Talk 21:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
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It's nice to use the returnto feature so people don't get lost after they log in. To do so, change:
Please '''[[Special:UserLogin|log in]]''' and then try again.
to:
Please '''<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto=Wikipedia%3AFile+Upload+Wizard&returntoquery=withJS%3DMediaWiki%253AFileUploadWizard.js}} log in]</span>''' and then try again.
The new version renders as:
Please log in and then try again.
-- Superm401 - Talk 21:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
After uploading I receive the following message:
Your file has been uploaded successfully and can now be found here:
File:Example.jpg
Please follow the link and check that the image description page has all the information you meant to include.
Instead of "Example.jpg" there should appear the new file name.
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Add [[Category:Article Feedback Blacklist]] to the end of the page. It's been enabled twice now here by relatively inexperienced editors, and the feedback here is never useful. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 21:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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Where does this empty stuff in certain uploads come from:
;Other information: {{en| }}
See sample removal. How can the addition to file description pages be avoided in future? -- Leyo 08:55, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Looks like the script isn't checking for input strings that just consist of a space character. We should probably add a line of code somewhere that all input strings should be trim()'ed before they are assembled. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Increasingly, files are being made available for uploading to wikipedia under this license; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Yet the upload wizard seems unclear how to accommodate this classification. The process on Wikipedia Commons is simple in comparison. Graemp ( talk) 12:00, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
I've been trying to upload a pic for an article about a music band, and it keeps telling me that the article doesn't exist, even though it clearly does and I've typed in the article name correctly. I've followed the instructions twice, and it keeps saying this. Any suggestions? -- KetchupRevenge ( talk) 05:11, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I am planning to deploy it in Telugu WP and started localising the messages. It does not seem to work. I have imported JS file and CSS file as well as te:Wikipedia;File_Upload_Wizard page. Am I missing any thing? -- Arjunaraoc ( talk) 14:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Telugu version is producing the following errors when free license and own work is selected the following error message appears Can't find elements: move=AnyOtherInfo(undefined), target=detailsOwnWork([object HTMLDivElement]) following which the string next to Upload button is still in English as given below. "No, I want to upload this file here on this wiki only. This way it can be used only on the English Wikipedia. However, somebody else might still decide to copy it to Commons or use it elsewhere later. If you do not want your file to be copied to Commons and deleted locally, consider adding {{ Keep local}}."
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Boom1pp ( talk) 17:45, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
If I click on the options This is a free work then This file is from a free published source and fill in all the information required, there are three options at the bottom - 'upload to commons', 'upload' and 'reset form' - but the first two stay greyed out and the only one that works is "reset form". I see from the feedback that others seem to have had similar problems - what else do I need to do to upload the file? Richerman (talk) 03:05, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Just tried it out and can't replicate the issue; the upload buttons seem to work fine for me. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:31, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I tried using the Wizard without luck in Internet Explorer. So I used Firefox, and it still works there. Is the code not reading IE right now? --
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Never mind; I realize that Avast anti-virus software is interfering with the Wizard. -- George Ho ( talk) 20:08, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
After the form is filled and "upload locally" button is clicked, the form collapses leaving basically an empty screen in front of the person uploading a file. It would be *really* great if the page could scroll to the top after clicking on that button and form collapse, so people can see what's happening with the upload process. Thoughts? -- Dsimic ( talk) 21:46, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Justlettersandnumbers posted this comment on 30 June 2013 ( view all feedback).
If it's to be a "wizard" then it should offer a full range of options and relevant licences for uploading paintings that cannot be uploaded to commons. I happened to know that PD-US-1923-abroad|2020 was the correct tag for my last upload, but there was no way to choose that as an upload rationale.
Any thoughts?
biswas 13:31, 28 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biswas bidhan santosh ( talk • contribs)
It would be very convenient if one could enter multiple image files on the same screen. In my case I added 7 icons for the same wp page. It would have been much faster to enter several at a time. The idea is to select several images, then add their respective info, one at a time, on the same screen.
It would also be convenient if the original file name were the default saved name.
Also, it would be nice to be able to save images in a test area (instead of just wp or creative commons), since certain images cannot be evaluated without seeing them in a real wp page.
I'm thinking particularly of icons, but it could also apply to diagrams, and maybe even photos.
For this, it would be not problematic if images saved in a test area were restricted to being used in user pages or sandboxes. The key is being able to display the images in a real wp page. This is particularly important if a group must decide together what is to be accepted. (Which is my case.)
Otherwise I find this entry page convenient. I tried some other wp image loading page just before, but it wouldn't accept the license type for some reason. This page accepted everything, and the layout is logical. The reset button is handy as well (once I noticed it).
This page locked up once while loading 6 images, just before selecting the destination. Two of the 3 buttons at that point were greyed out. I had to reload the page and re-enter everything for that file. André437 ( talk) 13:30, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedia folks, Excellent tool -- thank-you. I suggest that you warn users upfront on the wizard page (and maybe other relevant pages) that they may only upload images that are immediately headed for an existing article (e.g., not a sandboxed article) and therefore that their images can be uploaded only once the article text has been published. I know that this is a bit redundant and you do say this but it seems counter-intuitive (to me) that an article can't be completed before it's published (I hope I have this right!) Thanks. Sternthinker ( talk) 18:45, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Please change:
|name = Uploading media files
|title = Uploading media files
|navbar = plain
|state = plain
|listclass = hlist
|group1 = Alternative upload methods
|list1 =
* [[:commons:Special:UploadWizard|Commons Wizard]] (recommended for free files)
* [[:commons:Commons:Upload|Commons (old form)]]
* [[Special:Upload|plain form]] (for experienced users)
* [[Wikipedia:Upload/old|old guided form]]
|group2 = Help and guidelines
|list2 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|ask copyright questions]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Image use policy|image use policy]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[WP:NFC|non-free content]]</span>
|group3 = This program
|list3 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:MediaWiki:FileUploadWizard.js|script code]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc|documentation]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discuss this program]]</span>
near the bottom of the page to:
|name = Uploading media files
|title = Uploading media files
|navbar = plain
|state = plain
|listclass = hlist
|group1 = Alternative upload methods
|list1 =
* [[:commons:Special:UploadWizard|Commons Wizard]] (recommended for free files)
* [[:commons:Commons:Upload|Commons (old form)]]
* [[:commons:Special:Upload|Commons (plain form)]] (for experienced users)
* [[Special:Upload|plain form]] (for experienced users)
* [[Wikipedia:Upload/old|old guided form]]
|group2 = Help and guidelines
|list2 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|ask copyright questions]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[Wikipedia:Image use policy|image use policy]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[WP:NFC|non-free content]]</span>
|group3 = This program
|list3 =
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:MediaWiki:FileUploadWizard.js|script code]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc|documentation]]</span>
* <span class="fuwOutLink">[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discuss this program]]</span>
So that experienced users like myself can have a direct link to the plain Special:Upload form on Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. Thank you. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( t • e • c) 20:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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Please also remove [[Category:Article Feedback Blacklist]]. Feedback on this page is useful. Q.E.D.. -- Elvey ( talk) 03:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Reset button should not be along with the submit button as the user may accedently click on it and oh all his filled up form gone. Or there should be a confirmation popup box to reset the form. UBS talk 09:59, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Damir Petic — Preceding unsigned comment added by Autentic ( talk • contribs) 12:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Include a way to attach written permission forms for the use of images. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rogcraigvogel ( talk • contribs) 19:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
How can I localize this wizard to one of the sister Wikipedias? The current wizard is Special:Upload, which should be replaced by File Upload Wizard. I have enough rights there. Can anyone guide me on this? -- Anton Talk 09:56, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I want to overwrite the old image. It is non-contentious, but I will need to change the description (eg. for resolving issues.)
User:GKFX talk 16:12, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Otherwise, the old image appears, and we think "I'm going to have to re-upload", which doesn't resolve it. User:GKFX talk 16:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I've created Template:Editnotices/Protection/Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard, which is displayed instead of the normal protection banner. Hopefully, that will stop the flood of bogus edit requests placed here. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 16:47, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
From what I understand there's been a couple reports at commons of people using this tool but not having a license entered into the description page. For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=File:Sea_Hill_Lighthouse._Curtis_Island,_Australia,_May_2011.jpg&oldid=125117262 which was uploaded by user:PeterMarquisKyle (See also discussion at https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=User_talk:Jarekt&oldid=125692062#File:Sea_Hill_Lighthouse._Curtis_Island.2C_Australia.2C_May_2011.jpg ). There may be a bug in this tool related to the license selection process. Bawolff ( talk) 19:38, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
I had a question about copyright. When the person photographed and the photographer both have died eighty years ago, is it a violation of copyright to use the photograph ? The photograph is being used everywhere in books, magazines etc, because in India an item is copyright free after 50 years of the death of the creator of the item Shankar Sen ( talk) 13:05, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
In the Upload Wizard, when uploading multiple images that all belong in the same category it would be nice to be able to designate the category ONCE rather than for each image. Can this be made an option? Thanks.
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Currently the page MediaWiki:UploadScriptDemo.js contains invalid JS code (the wiki markup for a redirect). Could someone delete it? Helder.wiki 21:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC) Helder.wiki 21:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! Could someone apply these changes to the script? Helder.wiki 20:52, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello English Wikipedia community. We, at the Persian Wikipedia, are looking for a wizard like this for uploading tasks. Are we permitted to localize this wizard and use it in the Persian language Wikipedia? I mean, is this wizard a Free Software? Or, do you have any plan to release it as a free software? Thanks. -- Bkouhi ( talk) 16:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I have just attempted to upload two .jpg images: A beer bottle cap and a Taedonggang, 640ml bottle of beer. The cap went well but the bottle more difficult. At the first and second attempts, the uploader rotated it through 90 degrees anti-clockwise. Thinking that this might be caused by the image being greater in height than in width, I widened the image so that it was of greater width than height: this did not work. I therefore rotated the image an extra 90 deg. clockwise: this worked. The uploader rotated it 90 deg anticlockwise, thus rendering it correct.
The photo of the bottle was taken in portrait mode and cropped. I can only think that the uploader is reading the exif data rather than simply storing the image as supplied.
Has anyone else had this problem?
3 of my files have been deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eiji Mendoza ( talk • contribs) 00:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
I uploaded File:Futurikon logo.png while I was still creating the stub at Futurikon, and of course got a message saying that the article in which I was proposing to use this non-free image did not exist. So far so good.
But the only way I found to recover without completely resetting the form, even after creating the article, was to put a dummy article name into the box. The form did not reset when I re-entered the article name that now existed. When I entered a different article name (one that existed but in which I had no intention of using the image), it reset and I was then able to enter the real one.
No damage done. But this is probably not going to be an unusual scenario, and an inexperienced editor would probably have found themselves re-entering all the information. That was the only obvious way out that the wizard offered.
And it was frustrating enough for me. To need to re-enter all the information for this one glitch, or use this mildly creative work-around... I think we can do better.
Just a suggestion. The wizard as is is already an asset IMO. Andrewa ( talk) 20:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Very nice that the wizard leads you through the process one step at a time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanya Pretorius ( talk • contribs) 12:18, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Preferred over old method. Not sure what changed since I last uploaded, but it felt simpler. Thmazing ( talk) 18:30, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
If that is your wish, why wait until users are half way through the Wikipedia upload process to tell them?? Put the text you have now in that regard at top of page, do ya' think?
I've uploaded a photo and went to the article page to insert it, but it isn't visible/usable. Should I wait 5 minutes? How long does it take? The upload page would be easier for newbies if it had a go button, after you've ticked the boxes. PatrickGuinness ( talk) 18:14, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
it's not letting me upload photos to my wiki ".
What do i do?" — Preceding
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During the "Upload file" process, using the "Upload Wizard", there is no option for book covers. Only "titlepage of a book". The titlepage is not the same as the cover. There is no cover option. Have book covers been deprecated? -- Green C 14:35, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Masem:. I don't have access to edit the page, but can view source and here is the relevant section:
In the sentence "This is the titlepage of a book", simply change "titlepage" -> "cover or titlepage". That would make it unambiguous and cover all bases. -- Green C 14:29, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Why is it that when you upload an image of a company logo it is required to tick a box saying that it will be the "primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question"? There should be a second tick box for if you are uploading a logo from a dis-banded company and it will not go at the top of the page. -- Emitewiki2 ( talk) 23:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
For the last 24 hours I have been trying to upload an image, but each time the image fails load. Anyone else having this issue.-- Dcheagle • talk • contribs 21:21, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Not knowing much about how to create or edit wizards, is there any way to prevent, or at least warn users against uploading large non-free images? Per the minimal usage criterion, fair use images should be no bigger than a 400x400 square, and preferably smaller than 100,000 pixels, but I see large, even huge images uploaded. As simple as it is to tag with {{ Non-free reduce}}, it would be nice to be able to skip that step. Thanks. Mosmof ( talk) 04:55, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
My suggestion is to change the name to "Upload media", and I think so because it's just a place to upload media, not files in general. This may sound disagreeable, but it probably would make more sense. Gamingforfun365 ( talk) 04:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
When one selects the free license, own work option, one is only presented with four choices: CC-BY-SA-3.0 with optional GFDL, CC-BY-3.0 or CC0. Should we not add the version 4 licenses to the menu given that they have several advantages in terms of internationalisation, ease of reuse and legible legal code? How would we do that? BethNaught ( talk) 20:08, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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Fut.Perf.
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Under "this is a free work" I have Qs about 2 options:
I think most sources of images don't address this stuff, makes finding images hard. Ranze ( talk) 11:59, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Assuming that it handles the copyright issues in a satisfactory manner, this was an easy way to upload low-resolution images of the covers of several books. The steps were easy to understand. The flakiness has to do with activating the Upload button. At first it was grayed out. I activated the down arrow on the field whose default is "None" (don't recall its name), and that seems to have fixed the problem. In any event, the problem got fixed and the file uploaded without event. I've done it on two covers so far, with three or four to go. My images were 100 dpi, but I have no idea if that is acceptable, or if a higher resolution would also be acceptable. It would be good if the wizard said something about resolution. Lou Sander ( talk) 15:38, 10 June 2015 (UTC)