FYI
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From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Subject: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear WLM Members,
As of yesterday, a banner promoting the WLM Android App has appeared on all
pages of the WIkipedia mobile site and the sister projects, on Android
devices only. This banner can be closed easily by the user, and won't
appear again until the user clears the data of his/her browser.
To summarize, the banner:
- appears on the mobile site only
- appears on Android devices only
- appears on all pages in all languages
- can be closed easily and persistently
- is being localized
- links to the app on Google Play
We are tracking downloads of the app to see what impact this makes.
To all of you who considered putting the banner on your WIkipedia main
page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there
were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would
appear twice on the main page, so the manual version can be removed.
Thank you for your support.
Phil
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Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
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Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
FYI
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From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Subject: Camera users - the Android app is for you!
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings WLM Members,
Version 1.2.3 of the WLM Android App is on Google
Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>and
here <http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk>. We have made some
improvements and in particular, there is an important enhancement related
to camera photos.
Yes, camera photos. Please let me explain.
The app is a great way to find monuments, but many participants in WLM use
cameras to take the photos they will submit to the contest.
It is great to submit mobile photos to the contest as well, but cameras
generally offer better quality and control. So why not upload mobile photos
as placeholders, to make camera submissions easier?
The following blog post, which will be published tomorrow, explains how
this works.
Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel
log<http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406>
Posted by Philip Chang <http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/pchang/> on
September 10th, 2012
The Wiki Loves Monuments Android
App<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>
is
a great way to take photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons during the
world’s largest photo
contest<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/29/kicking-off-wiki-loves-monuments-2012/>
throughout
September. But what if you are shooting with a camera and don’t see
yourself taking too many photos with your mobile phone? You can now use the
app as a convenient travel log and make it much easier to organize your
photos when processing and uploading them at home.
Here’s how you use the app as a travel log. As you walk around finding
monuments nearby to shoot with your camera, use the app on your phone to
find the monuments and take a picture of them to upload, either on the road
or when you get home. Back on your computer, your uploaded mobile photos
will be a convenient record of all the monuments you visited, sitting on
Commons under “My uploads.”
As an added bonus, every mobile upload you add to Commons will include a
link to the Special Upload Wizard that automatically allows you to upload
and categorize more photos of that monument based on its campaign and
reference number. This is similar to clicking the “upload photo” button on
the monument lists in Wikipedia, but it is right there in your travel log.
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png>
A screenshot of the new travel log feature associated with WLM app photos
uploaded to Commons.
To see your travel log and use this feature, you must login at
commons.wikimedia.org <http://blog.wikimedia.org/commons.wikimedia.org> and
click on “My uploads” at the top. Click on the name of any uploaded photo
and the file page of that photo will open. Scroll down and below the
description you will see the link, “Upload more photos of this monument.”
The travel log can help you in two ways:
1. you will see a sequential list of the monuments you visited, which
helps in identifying the monuments taken on your camera
2. you can submit the photos from your camera for each monument directly
from the travel log
The latest app, version 1.2.3, has been published in the Google
Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>
store
and that version has this new feature. Please update the app if you
downloaded it before and do not have auto-updates turned on. If you have
good ideas about photo uploads in general, or improvements next year, feel
free to post feedback<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedb…>
or
send email <mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>.
You may also download the app
here<http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk>,
or on the F-Droid
market<http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=wiki%20loves%20monuments&fdi…>
.
We appreciate your support. Happy uploading!
*Phil Chang, Product Manager, Mobile*
- Copyright notes: "Upload more
photos"<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png>
by Philinje <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philinje>,
under CC-BY-SA
3.0 Unported <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode>,
from Wikimedia Commons
--
Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
--
Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
Yes, it is public and open source.
https://github.com/Wikimedia/WikipediaMobile
We are on IRC Freenode, #wikimedia-mobile if you have questions.
Thanks for your offer to help. We are in the middle of two major projects
and some of your ideas might make their way into the second project, but we
are short-handed.
I am also CC'ing our mobile mailing list, since it's a good forum to
discuss ideas like yours. I already added three bugs and made a note on the
Feature Corral.
Please note your OS and device in these bugs, if you can.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40013https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40014https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40015http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#User_feedback
To sign up for mobile-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Thanks.
Phil
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, nice turn-around time! I didn’t expect such a quick reply.
>
> Say, is this thing developed publicly? I might be able to give a hand
> with some bug fixing at some point.
>
> — Bogdan Butnaru
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Hi, thanks for this excellent feedback.
> >
> > We'll raise some bugs and keep in mind the enhancement about the initial
> > page, which is an idea we have been considering.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I'm having trouble using the "save page" function. The pages are saved,
> >> but it's pretty much impossible to use them when not connected to the
> >> Internet:
> >>
> >> First, if I start the application while disconnected, the app is stuck
> >> trying to load the home page, and it doesn't allow me to open the list
> of
> >> saved pages. (Actually, AFAIK it's impossible to open the menu at all
> until
> >> the first page loads, which is really annoying even when connected.)
> >>
> >> Second, even if I'm looking at a saved page while the connection drops,
> if
> >> I click on a link to something not saved (which can happen by accident)
> >> it'll again get stuck, not even the back button works.
> >>
> >> It really needs to be more resilient to connectivity issues, as it
> stands
> >> it's almost less useful for reading the wiki than a browser.
> >>
> >> Independently of those bugs, it would be nice to have the option not to
> >> load the homepage by default. A search box and the list of saved pages
> would
> >> be much faster.
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Mobile-feedback-l mailing list
> >> Mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-feedback-l
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Phil Inje Chang
> > Product Manager, Mobile
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > 415-812-0854 m
> > 415-882-7982 x 6810
> >
>
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Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
Greetings All,
We have updated the app on Google
Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>with
some important fixes and enhancements.
Here is a separate download link:
*http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.2.apk*<http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.2.apk>
Changes in this version:
* Dynamically load campaign data - picks up campaign config changes without
requiring a new version of the app
* Camera and location features marked as optional to increase device
compatibility
* Localisation updates
* Increased accuracy when communicating with GPS satellites
* Disables 'Cancel upload' button when it is too late to cancel
* Bigger touch areas for checkboxes
* Moves {{Uploaded with WLM Mobile}} template to the source field on file
page
* Translated country name on monument page
* Fixed admin level display
* Strip bold/italic apostrophe markup from wikitext fields
* 'Back' after upload no longer returns you to upload progress
* Consistent photo upload comments
* Cache monuments in certain situations to reduce API calls
* Monument pin clustering disabled when zoomed in
* Lossless image compression
The app is now also available of the FOSS market, F-droid, at:
*http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.wikipedia.wlm*<http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.wikipedia.wlm>
We are working on more fixes and enhancements, including a handy way to
upload more photos on Commons. This will make any mobile upload a
convenient placeholder for desktop uploads.
Please let us know if you have any issues by email or on the feedback
page<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedb…>
.
We have a new page for help with monument data issues:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Data…
Phil
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Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
Dear list,
I have the Motorola Defy+ aka MB526 smartphone. Shouldn't it be
redirected to the mobile version? (It is not)
The user agent is:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.6; de-at; MB526
Build/4.5.1-134_DFP-231) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"
Thanks,
Jakob
