On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
On Wed, 9 May 2012 08:59:27 +0200, Jane Darnell wrote:
Hmm. So basically the issue is security. Maybe Commons could have a "mobile upload key" that you could obtain by typing in your credentials? That key could then be parsed by the mail server. Just a thought over coffee... Jane
I guess this can be solved if e-mails are sent to OTRS, but I am not sure we have enough OTRS capacity to handle this, even for a month. May be uploading to Flickr first is just plain easier.
ugh, no.
The solution is making the WLM upload bot use OAuth. (and getting OAuth support on the WMF cluster) You can also add a feature to allow uploading from the official Wikipedia app on Android/iPhone. (and so bypass the bot)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth <-- writeup from November that hasn't changed much since http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/User_stories <-- newer page to collect use cases for how people would use the feature if implemented. (I guess to decide how much paid dev attention to give it and when) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/060379.html <-- recent discussion
-Jeremy