hi elya, if the mobile app helps: * to locate the monument * to show what fotos already exist * to enter the contest * to add metadata it would be nice.
but i cannot imagine a workflow which helps uploading high quality images. i like the mobile strategy a lot - but developping an upload app is maybe too tempting nowadays as instagram got bought by facebook. rupert On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 21:27, elya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to share some discussion points we had recently with the > foundation's mobile app development. I would highly appreciate your > opinions, ideas and thoughts. Unfortunately, my next call with WMF is > already tomorrow evening (sorry for that). > > The WMF will most probably develop an upload app for smartphones. We are > invited to provide ideas and requests for our - WLM - needs. > > The basic, most simplified upload workflow would be borrowed from the > upload wizard and adapted to smartphones for the mobile Wikipedia > browser app. > > Another idea is an advanced workflow that would be provided already as > an Android or iPhone app (based on the PhoneGap framework), with > extended options for geolocation, additional campaigns like WLM or > uploading an image straight from the article (monuments list...) > > From my point of view, the most realistic approach (given WMF's > depolyment cycles and the timeline) is the basic mobile browser app - > that does not help us very much for WLM in its basic design, and due to > iOS restrictions it most probably would not work for iPhones. However, > maybe it could be slightly extended for our needs. > > From your point of view: > > 0) How do you generally feel about the mobile upload app for WLM - from > an international perspective? > 1) What do you generally think would be a minimal requirement to make a > mobile app usable/helpful for WLM? > 2) What would be next on your wishlist to make it real fun? > 3) Any ideas how a team of volunteer developers could support staff > developers effectively with the mobile app? (I'll have to discuss that) > 4) anything I did not consider here? > > Some details about the plans can be found here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MobileFrontend/Photo_upload#Wiki_Loves_Monuments > > > Thanks for your feedback! > > Regards, > Elke > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
