Hi Maarten, I thought about the security issue, but especially for new users, they probably don't care about security and are more concerned about losing their password, and keeping it in the email may help them upload a second time. Another alternative could be to somehow let them mail a bunch of photos and keep them in a queue so that when they logon, the upload requests get executed.
A bot account might work for that, if it sends a confirmation link for the user to click on for the logon page. Jane On 8 mei 2012, at 20:06, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > Op 8-5-2012 16:14, Jane Darnell schreef: >> >> Hello, >> I was wondering if we could get around the problem of all the native mobile >> apps by allowing mobile users to upload photos by email. I am thinking of an >> email with a photo attached or pasted in the body of the message, >> accompanied by text in the subject line or body of the form: >> username:jane023 >> password:**** >> {{en|Duinlustweg 16 Overveen, Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. Next to park >> "Middenduin".}} >> {{Rijksmonument|514778}} >> [[Category:Bloemendaal]] > That's a security nightmare. >> >> You need the commons user login details, and the basic description and >> unique identifier. The default date is the date of the email or the photo >> date, but it could be optional to include category data if the user is >> enough of a commons user to determine this. So the last line in the above >> example could be optional. > I would opt for using a shared bot account. You would need some sort of > system to get your own personal emailadress > <somestrangecode>@submit.wikilovesmonuments.org . This would have a bot > upload the image for you and leave a note on your talk page so you can find > it back later on. >> >> Someone would need to set up a mail server that can auto-reply with a >> failure message or confirmation upload link. >> >> Is this possible? It could save people having to hassle with various mobile >> application SDK's. It could also be handy for people to reuse their messages >> as a template, if they take 10 or more photos of the same object with >> different angles. The mail parser would need to create a file title based >> off the description given. > Making a prototype shouldn't be too hard. Implementing all the features might > be a bit more difficult. > > Maarten >> >> Jane >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
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