The mobile team has gotten a lot of questions about our level of
support for this years wiki loves monuments campaign and I wanted to
use this thread to collect our ideas and to give an official response
so that everyone knows where we are at.
I'll address two points
* Photo taking
* Campaign meta data & Discovery
As everyone knows the Wikimedia mobile team built a custom WLM Android
application last year to help support the contest for both discovery
and photo taking. We will *not* be bringing this app nor its
infrastructure back for a number or reasons including
* WMF moving away from phone gap based technologies
* Unsustainable data pipelines
* Commons app superseding WLM app
That last point is very important as we still want to be able to
support users who want to take mobile photos but our analytics,
feedback, etc show that a generic photo taking application gains us
more high quality contributions. Last year's WLM app and
infrastructure took 6 people over 3 months to be built and rolled out,
but only provided us with about 500 unique uploaders over a single
month. Given our goal of 6,000 unique contributors per month this year
it is important for us to build pipelines that are sustainable year
round. Thus the Wikimedia App and Web teams will continue to invest in
our generic image pipelines like lead image upload, nearby, main menu
side bar, and app uploads.
Now that covers taking photos but what about campaign meta data and
discovery? The Wikimedia Mobile App team has been exploring the
addition of generic campaigns [1] within the Commons mobile app. This
functionality is meant to allow anyone to create a generic campaign
and associate photos with it. A lot of the work being done for mobile
campaigns(such as improvements to UploadCampaigns[2]) will be useful
for WLM, but mobile campaign support is *not* being written
specifically for WLM. We hope that it can work for WLM but we are not
developing for WLM nor on timeline to meet WLM's requirements for this
year.
We advise the WLM team to not explicitly depend on us for any other
their functionality for this year.
This in summary we're deprecating the WLM android app, continuing to
build our generic commons app for iOS and Android, researching
campaigns, and advising the WLM community to not explicitly depend on
us for any functionality this year.
Hopefully this clears up some of the open questions. Please let us
know if you have any more.
--tomasz
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Tomasz from the mobile team here. I was already drafting a message about this so give me
a day or two to finalize on it.
--tomasz
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
adding some people for input....
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
The Engineering Projects roadmap [1] for the Commons app does not say anything about
enabling campaigns. Is it already implemented and just awaiting to get started? Or did
someone forget to update that row of the roadmap? Or worse, will there be no possibilities
for campaigns on the app in September and you have to manually attach the correct template
and ID to the photo during upload?
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoizbfxc5g6KdEkza0xkQnJlM0o0TX…
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Jan Ainali
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige
0729 - 67 29 48
2013/6/26 Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>
2013/6/26 Stefan Elfving <stefan.elfving(a)hotmail.se>
> The Android app for Wiki Loves Monuments from Wikimedia Foundation seems to have
been redrawn from Google play.
>
> Does anyone know if and when it will be released again on Google play or some other
market place for apps?
Hi Stefan,
actually that app has been removed because it has been superseded by
the WIkimedia Commons app. Wiki Loves Monuments participant will use
that app to upload their photos from mobile.
Cristian
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