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Use of the term "caption" is ambiguous. The use of the caption for the filename is harmful.
This is especially problematic for sets of images, where the filenames, but not captions, require disambiguation (example 01.jpg, example 02.jpg, etc.)
Steps to reproduce
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Expected behaviour
Users should be asked for an image (file) name; and then whether they wish to use that as the caption (or vice versa).
If they do not they, should be prompted to enter a caption separately,
Actual behaviour
Users are asked to enter a caption. This is then also used as the file name.
Device name
Nord Plus One
Android version
Android 11
Commons app version
3.1.1~1c9267ca0
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Hi Pigsonthewing, nice to hear from you!
I beg to differ on the necessity to ask users to type a technical filename, especially on a tiny keyboard, but probably also on desktop.
If the best imaginable captions for two pictures are the exact same caption, then there is no harm in having these two pictures use the same technical filename plus an identifiable technical filename suffix. Or if there actually is harm, I would be happy to see a past real-life example so that we can discuss it further.
Thanks for your feedback!
Your reply assumes that "the best imaginable captions" are also the best imaginable file names. This is not the case.
All my file names, for example, are in the format [subject] - [date] - Andy Mabbett - [number]. At present, when I enter such file names, the app also uses them as captions.
I posit that most images on Commons do not us the same text for file name and caption. Indeed, if they did, we would not need two parameters.
Summary
Use of the term "caption" is ambiguous. The use of the caption for the filename is harmful.
This is especially problematic for sets of images, where the filenames, but not captions, require disambiguation (example 01.jpg, example 02.jpg, etc.)
Steps to reproduce
n/a
Expected behaviour
Users should be asked for an image (file) name; and then whether they wish to use that as the caption (or vice versa).
If they do not they, should be prompted to enter a caption separately,
Actual behaviour
Users are asked to enter a caption. This is then also used as the file name.
Device name
Nord Plus One
Android version
Android 11
Commons app version
3.1.1~1c9267ca0
Device logs
No response
Screen-shots
No response
Would you like to work on the issue?
Prefer not
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: