On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Nicole R. Tucker <nicole(a)gala.ws> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new here, my name is Nicole.
Welcome :)
Looking at these, as a user of a lot of uploading
applications, I
would say get rid of the description field. Title, and categories or
tags is enough to find one's images. Otherwise it's too much data and
inputting, especially for a mobile app. If you were developing a
library app or something, I would understand adding description,
because you'd need room for talking about where the image came from,
history of the image, etc. But for a mobile app, a title and a
category (Title: Noodle Shop, Catagory: Japan 2013) is enough.
This is my current thinking too. It is already optional. But we shouldn't
completely get rid of description, I think - there are restrictions on what
the title can be (240 bytes only, not too long, can not be a duplicate)
that a lot of times we do need a well written description for the image to
be usable. I also think that at some point we should (on the app) allow
people to do multi-lingual descriptions. Commons is very 'feature' rich,
and it's going to be a challenge to bring that out on mobile in a way that
doesn't throw out too many features without cluttering everything up.
Should be a fun ride!
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