Because Commons is afraid of the massive influx
of selfies that will then
have to be deleted, binding admin time and upsetting the uploader (who is,
likely, not aware of the Commons policies).
As was said before in this thread, some filtering at the source
(smartphone) will have to be implemented to keep everyone sane (YMMV).
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:50 AM Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
[ Sorry, sent prematurely ]
There are few things I hate more than dealing with images on computers.
Even a simple thing like emailing a screenshot or adding a photo to a
blogpost OR A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE is torture to me.
The only thing of this kind that is NOT torture is taking a photo with
my phone and sharing it to Twitter by tapping on the Share icon and then on
the Twitter icon.
I'd love to share photos directly from my phone to Wikipedia by tapping
on the Share icon and then on the Twitter icon.
My point is, if the Wikipedia app has 6,000,000 users, why not add the
functionality of sharing directly to Commons *in the Wikipedia app*?
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2015-04-15 11:45 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il
:
There are few things I hate more than dealing
with images on computers.
Even a simple thing like emailing a screenshot or adding a photo to a
blogpost OR A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2015-04-15 6:36 GMT+03:00 Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> On 14 April 2015 at 16:47, Shankar <notnarayan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Without spending too much time can someone point me to a rationale
>> why the app was sunset in the first place.
>>
>
>
https://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg02586.html
>
> In short, the Commons app had around 300 unique users per month. The
> Wikipedia app has around 6,000,000 unique users per month. Given our team
> size, we decided it was more strategic to devote all of our efforts to
> making the Wikipedia app the best it can be.
>
> Dan
>
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> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
> Wikimedia Foundation
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