Thanks Erik - my comments are inline!
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
[Cross-posting to WLM mailing list]
Hi Phil & mobile team,
a few questions/comments from playing with the WLM app.
1) Filenames of uploaded files
Right now files appear to follow the following pattern:
[Name of monument] (taken on [timestamp in DDMMMYYYY
HHhrsMMminsSSsecs]).jpeg
First question: Is there a reason we're using ".jpeg" instead of the
more common ".jpg" extension?
This is a good question and I'm not sure why this is happening. It's
potentially a default of the Cordova library we use. Someone more informed
might be able to shed light on this.
Second question: What are the motivations for the full timestamp in
> the pattern? Is it primarily uniqueness? If so I would suggest
> (re-)considering other approaches to achieve uniqueness (e.g.
> obtaining a unique suffix like 001, 002). This pattern seems pretty
> verbose; I do see some files with date-stamps in the name on Commons
> (and it's encouraged per
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_naming ), but very few
> that have the full timestamp.
This is primarily about trying to get a good balance between uniqueness and
being human readable. There was a confusing ticket about this -
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38285 which I closed today
due to the fact it wasn't actionable - I welcome (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38285#c8) suggestions on how
we could improve the names.
> * The red place-marks vs. gray place-marks iconography - are we
> explaining this anywhere in the UI? I was ultimately able to infer it,
> but it might be nice to have this explained e.g. by having the icon
> repeated in the detail view with a "Existing image" or "Photograph
> needed" label.
Yes I agree we could reinforce this better...
> * In list view, the gray boxes are gradually replaced with photographs
> where they exist. Ultimately I end up with some remaining gray boxes,
> which I can infer are cases where a photo is missing. But it seems
> like we want to have a different icon in list view for "We don't have
> a photo at all" vs. "We're still checking whether we have a
photo".
> Perhaps a spinner while it's checking?
>
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38936 :-)
> 3) Small UX confusion
> * I have been repeatedly confused by the
proximity of the "Back" arrow
> to the "Map view / List view" selector. They look like they're a
> single widget. I would suggest moving the "Map view" vs. "List
view"
> indicator to the right, detaching it from the "Back" arrow.
We've had similar comments from Matthew Roth so agree this should be
thought about.