On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Nicole R. Tucker nicole@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!