Yes but we had a terrific app that worked the other way: Wherever you are standing, you could see the things that Wikipedia wants a picture of (via the WLM lists). The community voted that the 'easy uploader button" would also result in too many pictures of the same things. So it's not just selfies that people are scared of. We have HUGE trust issues onwiki everywhere across the projects. Sigh.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:

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@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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2015-04-15 11:45 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@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

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2015-04-15 6:36 GMT+03:00 Dan Garry <dgarry@wikimedia.org>:

On 14 April 2015 at 16:47, Shankar <notnarayan@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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