One can Assume Good Faith and extrapolate from Instagram at the same time :-)
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:42 AM Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes but we had a terrific app that worked the other way: Wherever you are > standing, you could see the things that Wikipedia wants a picture of (via > the WLM lists). The community voted that the 'easy uploader button" would > also result in too many pictures of the same things. So it's not just > selfies that people are scared of. We have HUGE trust issues onwiki > everywhere across the projects. Sigh. > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Magnus Manske < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Because Commons is afraid of the massive influx of selfies that will then >> have to be deleted, binding admin time and upsetting the uploader (who is, >> likely, not aware of the Commons policies). >> >> As was said before in this thread, some filtering at the source >> (smartphone) will have to be implemented to keep everyone sane (YMMV). >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:50 AM Amir E. Aharoni < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> [ Sorry, sent prematurely ] >>> >>> There are few things I hate more than dealing with images on computers. >>> Even a simple thing like emailing a screenshot or adding a photo to a >>> blogpost OR A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE is torture to me. >>> >>> The only thing of this kind that is NOT torture is taking a photo with >>> my phone and sharing it to Twitter by tapping on the Share icon and then on >>> the Twitter icon. >>> >>> I'd love to share photos directly from my phone to Wikipedia by tapping >>> on the Share icon and then on the Twitter icon. >>> >>> My point is, if the Wikipedia app has 6,000,000 users, why not add the >>> functionality of sharing directly to Commons *in the Wikipedia app*? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >>> “We're living in pieces, >>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >>> >>> 2015-04-15 11:45 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected] >>> >: >>> >>>> There are few things I hate more than dealing with images on computers. >>>> Even a simple thing like emailing a screenshot or adding a photo to a >>>> blogpost OR A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >>>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >>>> “We're living in pieces, >>>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >>>> >>>> 2015-04-15 6:36 GMT+03:00 Dan Garry <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> On 14 April 2015 at 16:47, Shankar <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Without spending too much time can someone point me to a rationale >>>>>> why the app was sunset in the first place. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02586.html >>>>> >>>>> In short, the Commons app had around 300 unique users per month. The >>>>> Wikipedia app has around 6,000,000 unique users per month. Given our team >>>>> size, we decided it was more strategic to devote all of our efforts to >>>>> making the Wikipedia app the best it can be. >>>>> >>>>> Dan >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dan Garry >>>>> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps >>>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mobile-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> >
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