Proposal: Batch upload on MediaWiki

[Aemony 165]

Support for batch uploads could improve the speed of which users upload multiple screenshots for use in the articles. This seems at first glance as a relative easy feature to implement, as the functionality is already provided through extensions to MediaWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Bulk_upload

 

Possible concerns:

• How does this relate to the new backend for images and thumbnails? Does the extension need to have support to make use of the DigitalOcean Space?
• A few months ago when I tried to do something similar using multiple tabs I would often hit an error similar to a  429, Too many requests, and have a few of the uploads cancelled until I let the current ones finish. Is this something that would occur, and if so, do we need to increase the number of allowed connections per user on the backend?

[Waschbär 3]

In addition, the landing page after uploading should have a <textarea> field of the filename for each upload for easy copy and paste. In the best case it would already be formatted like "{{image|Name_of_image.png|}}".

[Garrett 222]

The Wikimedia Commons uses UploadWizard, so that would probably be the one to go with.

[Andytizer 274]

12 minutes ago, Garrett said:

The Wikimedia Commons uses UploadWizard, so that would probably be the one to go with.

Yes this looks good - shall we add it to Snuxoll's list of stuff to install.. I think it's low priority at the moment but will ask him to do post-planned migration in June/July.