[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more

[Patrick Reilly]

It's really nice to see these submissions.

— Patrick

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> FYI :)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:58 AM
> Subject: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more
> To: commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> as you may or may not know, we ran a coding competition in October
> which included mobile photo upload as one of the challenges.
>
> You can see the submissions here:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions
>
> The submissions include a "Share with Commons" application for
> Android. It can be installed through the Android market and the source
> code is available on GitHub.
>
> https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main
> https://github.com/michiel1972/shareWithCommons
>
> The application adds a "Share with Wikimedia Commons" option to the
> "Share with" menu that's available in the Android Gallery app. That
> is, when you're viewing a picture on your phone, you can easily upload
> that particular picture to Commons through the same process that's
> used for Picasa and other websites.
>
> I've tested it, and it works. It doesn't prompt for categories and the
> license selection is basically just a template field, but it gets the
> job done. Images uploaded using the app are added to this category:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_uploaded_by_Android_app
>
> We'll reach out to the author to see if they're interested in
> continuing to develop it and host it in Wikimedia's SVN.
>
> There are some other submissions as well:
>
> * An effort to build uploading functionality into the official
> Wikipedia Android app by User:Tpt
>
> * Three iOS / Objective C implementations of varying degrees of
> completeness. I haven't tested those yet, but we'll review them as
> well and share notes.
>
> The full list of submissions can be found here -- please add your own
> comments on the talk page:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Erik
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