[Imc-uk-process] the new publish form and multimedia

[mini mouse]

At 11:43 am +0000 21/2/06, rampART wrote:

>" upload media-files (supported are jpg|gif|mp3|avi|qt|mpeg)"

I think photography should be considered in a different way to radio 
and video, because as it is such an accessible medium you don't need 
to be an enthusiast to join in. I mean, everyone takes snaps at 
parties or on holiday, compared to how many broadcast radio or edit 
videos?

So on that basis, publish forms for reports containing photographs 
should be easier. Why say "upload media files" when you could say 
"Choose Picture" and "Send Article"?

>When mentioning the max file size we should say that if you need to 
>upload larger files you should use the FTP server and consider using 
>video.indymedia.org or radio.indymedia.org

No need for "max file size" on the photo page, just good guidelines 
on how to reduce the dimensions and filesize.

>"Title 1    (optional)"

Should read "Caption (Describe what's happening in the picture)"

>Personally I'd like to see publish pages specific to the media type 
>being uploaded so that the help text can be tailors specifically to 
>the needs of that medium and those users.

Agreed.

>For example, photographers might need advice about resizing, 
>preferred formats (we should be promoting .png right?) and 
>compression levels along with the important of full information and 
>captions.

I did write a help section on this about three months back and it's 
no doubt on some wiki somewhere but even I can't find it and I know 
about it. I feel help sections should definitely be on the publish 
pages, even if only as links from there to the wiki. Presumably 
they'd have to open new windows (the horror!!!) or each time you 
accessed the help page and returned to the form it'd have cleared 
itself...?

And "no" to .png. Publish pages should help people get their stuff 
published easily and just about every app that comes with a camera or 
is resizing freeware on the web uses jpg.  MIR supports it (I 
presume) so it's fine if someone who already knows what they're doing 
converts to .png but I wouldn't want to try and encourage this with 
photo 'non-enthusiasts'.

If a consensus developed that we'd have separate publish forms for 
each medium I'd be happy to put in the time and write the whole 
photography thing, but I wouldn't really want to do it until that 
point.

mini mouse