>
> This does has a fair share of backend work + notifications, that come with
> it.


Doesn't mean we shouldn't hack something together to prove it's worth
doing—which I think it might be.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Vibha Bamba <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jan,
>
> You make a very good point with creating a staging area and having some
> level of voting etc before uploads are committed.
> This does has a fair share of backend work + notifications, that come with
> it.
>
> We have much better means of preventing failure on native apps - with face
> detection, exif data etc.
> Apps and mobile web could also benefit from user curation on the lead
> image.
>
> Some ideas in this vein are:
> Enable uploads for nearby feature, because we know the user is actually at
> that location.
> Allow users to pick a lead image, using the existing gallery of the
> article.
>
> In addition to system detecting, we need a component guiding the user as
> to what an appropriate image is.
>
> Vibha
>
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 15 Apr 2015 11:34 am, "Jan Ainali" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Perhaps some serious thought should go into guiding the user in what an
>> appropriate upload is rather than just make it super easy to upload the
>> very first time?
>> We tried. This is a very very hard problem. Explaining copyright law is
>> difficult and no matter how many barriers we put in place the instant
>> gratification of having contributed something valuable overruled that.
>>
>> Didn't mobile web have around ~80% {{speedy}} and ~10% rightfully
>> successful deletion requests?
>> >
>> > If I understand correctly Wikigrok will not be "direct editing" on
>> Wikidata, but rather collecting data to see if it gets a good enough
>> validity that there is a coherence on the data before a bot does the edit.
>> How about trying something similar for images? Mobile upload to a staging
>> area, where other app users can tag it as useful/spam/out-of-scope and
>> perhaps even add categories to it before the actual upload to Commons
>> happen?
>> >
>>
>> Yeh this is definitely an option but we don't have infrastructure for
>> this for images...
>> > Med vänliga hälsningar,
>> > Jan Ainali
>> >
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>> >
>> >
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>> > Bli medlem.
>> >
>> >
>> > 2015-04-15 20:16 GMT+02:00 Jon Robson <[email protected]>:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Brian Gerstle <[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).
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I understand apps are focusing on readership at the moment, but are
>> there
>> >> > any investigations figuring out how to scale contribution workflows
>> and/or
>> >> > moderation?  I appreciate that this is a difficult problem, and I
>> hope we're
>> >> > putting earnest effort into figuring out how to mitigate or solve it.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm just troubled by some of the language used here, and elsewhere,
>> which
>> >> > describes a "fear" of more users. I can't help but wonder how many
>> companies
>> >> > or services would readily welcome a "massive influx of users."  How
>> will
>> >> > Wikipedia or Commons succeed if we're afraid growth?
>> >>
>> >> +1. How we change this culture is the holy grail of Wikimedia's
>> >> future. Unless we change this, our project will die imo. I was really
>> >> saddened to see mobile uploads disappear from web - we had a lot of
>> >> spam yes but we also had people posting never before available photos
>> >> of diseases [1]. Our communities reaction seems to be to push back on
>> >> influxes of new edits which makes me feel we should be spending more
>> >> time on moderation tools - but so far I don't see any hint that this
>> >> will become a focus. This is a bigger problem than web and apps but so
>> >> far we see this more than most... I think this is something we'd have
>> >> to convince Lila is a good use of our time...
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> http://wikimedia-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/AihmOoNe/mobile-image-upload
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Also, aren't we dealing with this to a certain extent with
>> >> > Wikidata/Wikigrok?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> There seems to be two things in conflict when dealing with anything
>> upload
>> >> >> related.
>> >> >> 1) uploading from a mobile phone is easy - that's a good thing
>> >> >> 2) uploading useful content to commons is difficult for most people
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Remember we made it super easy on web and we even limited who could
>> see it
>> >> >> but people still uploaded selfies and copyvios. IMO the copyvios
>> were an
>> >> >> attempt to be helpful.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So I ask you what's more important - 1 or 2? The only really the
>> commons
>> >> >> app was a roaring success was the lack of its brand value as Amir
>> says most
>> >> >> "muggles" don't know what it is so this serves as a filter for
>> people that
>> >> >> use the app. Folding this functionality into a Wikipedia app would
>> make you
>> >> >> hit problem 2 and all the moderation problems associated with it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 15 Apr 2015 4:54 am, "Amir E. Aharoni" <
>> [email protected]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> > An Android Commons mobile app is probably the mandatory
>> catalisator for
>> >> >>> > hundreds of millions of people to participate to Commons. If you
>> have only
>> >> >>> > 300 unique users a month with an official Commons app, IMO the
>> only thing it
>> >> >>> > tells you is: the app is not good enough!
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Muggles (no offense, honestly) don't know what "Commons" is.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Either we need to educate the world that Commons is an awesome
>> repository
>> >> >>> of media that can compete with Flickr and Instagram, or we need to
>> bundle it
>> >> >>> with the Wikipedia app, which a lot of people do have.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Facebook unbundled the Messenger app from the Facebook app, and
>> millions
>> >> >>> hate it, but the same millions use it because they are hooked too
>> strongly,
>> >> >>> and Facebook has a super-strong interest in hooking people to the
>> Messenger
>> >> >>> (the most popular explanation is that they want to transition it
>> to a
>> >> >>> payment processing app).
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> We are not in the business of hooking people, but in the business
>> of
>> >> >>> sharing knowledge. I'd actually love the first thing to happen - to
>> >> >>> popularize the Commons as a truly free competitor to Flickr, etc.
>> But at
>> >> >>> this point in time this appears to be a much higher-hanging fruit
>> than
>> >> >>> adding easy image sharing functionality to the Wikipedia app.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> > But, these numbers are not a surprise to me. I have tested
>> Commons *in
>> >> >>> > real conditions* a year ago in Africa and the result was: almost
>> impossible
>> >> >>> > to upload picture to Commons (but no problem to upload the same
>> pictures to
>> >> >>> > Tumblr).
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I'm not sure that I understood: Is it because of server problems
>> that we
>> >> >>> can fix, or because there is no app?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> --
>> >> >>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>> >> >>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> >> >>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> >> >>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>> >> >>>
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