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Bug 30173 - Alter wording about categories in upload wizard
Alter wording about categories in upload wizard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
UploadWizard (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
aklapper-moreinfo
: i18n
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-08-02 01:35 UTC by Purodha Blissenbach
Modified: 2013-02-10 14:19 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Purodha Blissenbach 2011-08-02 01:35:33 UTC
There is a bunch of text messages in Extension:UploadWizard that
deal with putting uploaded files into Categories of the wiki.

They are worded in a way as if categories were added to files.

This wording is wrong and bewildering, since files actually are
being put into categories - while category links, or category
references are being insterted into the description pages of
files.

It is impractical to translate "put a categoy into a file" since
that may incorrectly suggest the file's data was being altered,
and putting a category into its content was as strange as 
"pouring a jar into lemonade."

Besides that, the current wording appears extremely misguiding
to me. Users should be educated to understand how putting stuff
into categories technically works. Once they start editing
description pages, they will have to understand and know it.
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2012-11-11 12:41:36 UTC
Trying http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard :
In the "Describe" steps, clicking "Add categories and more information ..." to get the "Add categories" dropdown, the small question mark button says "Add your file to categories so as to make it easier to find."

Purodha: Please provide steps where to find the exact strings that you would like to see improved, and please provide the actual current wording (exact quote) here.
Comment 2 Nischay Nahata 2013-02-10 14:19:29 UTC
Closing this as I don't see any wrong message, reopen with some evidence.

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