• drop down selection of country (or that the app would recognise which country you are in and automatically ‘point’ to the right list)
• simple registration – to the competition and wikipedia at the same time (name, username, email, cellphone, language)
• ability to locate and link the photo/video to the heritage site they want to photo  (they don’t have to see what others have uploaded)
• ability to ‘nominate’ a heritage site that is not on the list (due to SA’s complex history, monuments are very ‘colonial’ and many people have very different ideas of what should be labelled a heritage site or monument)
• geolocation (some of our monuments/heritage sites haven’t yet been geolocated)
• and joining the world of social media, the ability to seamlessly share each photo across all social media platforms – facebook, twitter, foursquare and others to get maximum buzz and interest in the competition.
  

• the ability to pull the photos in from such platforms as instagram, viddy, foursquare, etc. (are they allowed to ‘doctor’ the photo?)
• to upload multiple photos – such as many angles of a building or statue at once.
• simple photography suggestions/tutorial (minimum sizes, framing, etc. into account) so we can get the best possible quality
• a call for people to contribute text about the heritage site that they have just uploaded.
  

hi elya,

if the mobile app helps:
* to locate the monument
* to show what fotos already exist
* to  enter the contest
* to add metadata
it would be nice.

but i cannot imagine a workflow which helps uploading high quality
images. i like the mobile strategy a lot - but developping an upload
app is maybe too tempting nowadays as instagram got bought by
facebook.

rupert


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 21:27, elya <ew_wp@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to share some discussion points we had recently with the
> foundation's mobile app development. I would highly appreciate your
> opinions, ideas and thoughts. Unfortunately, my next call with WMF is
> already tomorrow evening (sorry for that).
>
> The WMF will most probably develop an upload app for smartphones. We are
> invited to provide ideas and requests for our - WLM - needs.
>
> The basic, most simplified upload workflow would be borrowed from the
> upload wizard and adapted to smartphones for the mobile Wikipedia
> browser app.
>
> Another idea is an advanced workflow that would be provided already as
> an Android or iPhone app (based on the PhoneGap framework), with
> extended options for geolocation, additional campaigns like WLM or
> uploading an image straight from the article (monuments list...)
>
> From my point of view, the most realistic approach (given WMF's
> depolyment cycles and the timeline) is the basic mobile browser app -
> that does not help us very much for WLM in its basic design, and due to
> iOS restrictions it most probably would not work for iPhones. However,
> maybe it could be slightly extended for our needs.
>
> From your point of view:
>
> 0) How do you generally feel about the mobile upload app for WLM - from
> an international perspective?
> 1) What do you generally think would be a minimal requirement to make a
> mobile app usable/helpful for WLM?
> 2) What would be next on your wishlist to make it real fun?
> 3) Any ideas how a team of volunteer developers could support staff
> developers effectively with the mobile app? (I'll have to discuss that)
> 4) anything I did not consider here?
>
> Some details about the plans can be found here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MobileFrontend/Photo_upload#Wiki_Loves_Monuments
>
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> Regards,
> Elke
>
>
>
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