Sure, they are not super high quality, but a photo from a smartphone can be good enough to become a Quality Image. [1] Your second comment is really important, it is easy to shoot a video from the phone, but a pain to upload it. Right now you first have to transfer it to the computer and then convert it to ogv before you can upload it. A stage area where you upload videos where they are batchconverted to ogv would be nice.
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kiev_monument_140.jpg /Jan Ainali 2012/4/11 rupert THURNER <[email protected]> > 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 > -- Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
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