User:Rasel160/CommonsAnnounce

Hi,

My name is Nazmul Chowdhury. I'm a student taking part in the Google Summer of Code with the Wikimedia Foundation. During the summer, I'm working on making Extension:UploadWizard more contributor-friendly. For example, I'll be adding dynamic template support (allowing support for more file types like books and artwork), and adding some code to pre-fill some known info about the content. My main goal is to make it easier to upload books, but in theory, as long as there is a template, you will be able to upload that file type and its metadata along with it. By the end of the project we will be supporting Template:Information (as we already do), Template:Book, Template:Artwork, Template:Image, and more if time permits.

Currently, I have a patch in progress that adds the interface and configuration necessary to support these templates. In the near future I'll start work on supporting Extension:TemplateData-style inputs for that interface as opposed to the current hard-coded versions that UploadWizard has relied on for so long. My mentor User:MarkTraceur has already submitted a draft of the Information template with TemplateData information, so we'll likely be making those changes to other templates in the near future as well.

Please reply here with questions or thoughts. Looking forward to your feedback.