Hi All,
I'm new here, my name is Nicole.
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.
Nicole
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Maryana Pinchuk
<mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
For the multiple upload workflow, I prefer option 1 (creating a default
title + sequential number for each image, and allowing the user to edit the
description/add categories after upload).
The multiple upload itself (without the post upload actions) has been
implemented, should be out on the play store today or tomorrow :)
I'm still wondering whether there's any real merit in making the user
enter a custom title and a description, though. There's more thinking and
room for error involved on the user's part (if they pick a filename that's
taken, they won't be able to upload), and in practice most titles and
descriptions are identical. I know this is a legacy workflow from desktop
uploading, but I still think we should shake things up a bit and push for
less work on the user's part/more streamlined metadata :)
Dirty secret: The Android app doesn't yet check for name collisions, and
will happily replace them. The reason I've not been torched & pitchforked by
the community yet is because the app uses .jpeg as extension, rather than
.jpg, thus avoiding a majority of the collisions :) Should be something that
is fixed at some point (soon!), yes. I still haven't figured out how the UX
for that should look like ('this title already exists, please rename').
Should do at some point. Suggestions for this welcome!
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