Dear WLM Members,
Please note we have added a new feature to the app that puts an upload link on the file page of every mobile upload.
The upload link functions just like the upload button on many monument lists on Wikipedia. The link pre-fills the Upload Wizard with the relevant campaign and ID info.
What this means in practice is that any mobile upload can be a placeholder for desktop uploads. We are hoping this will broaden usage of the app by making it more integrated with the typical pattern of taking photos on a camera.
Email back if you want to try a pre-release version of the app with this feature.
Here is a draft of the blog post that will be published on Monday:
Desktop uploads from the Wiki Loves Monuments Apphttp://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406 Posted by Philip Chang http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/pchang/ on September 7th, 2012
A travelog is one of the great ways to use the Wiki Loves Monuments Android App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm. As you walk around finding monuments nearby and shooting them with your camera, just take a record of the monument with the app. When you get back home, upload your mobile photos and presto – you have a convenient record of all the monuments you visited, sitting right on Commons under “My uploads.”
Now, the app has a new feature: every mobile upload to Commons will include a link to upload more photos, with all of the campaign and monument info filled in. This is similar to clicking the upload button on the monument lists in Wikipedia, but it is right there in your travelog.
To see your travelog and use this feature, you must login at commons.wikimedia.org and click on “My uploads” at the top. Click on the name of any upload and the file page of that photo will open. Scroll down and below the description you will see the link, “Upload more photos of this monument.”
The travelog can help you in two ways: 1) to see a sequential list of the monuments you visited, so that it becomes easier to identify the monuments taken on your camera, and 2) to submit the photos from your camera for each monument. The WLM Android App already helped with 1), and now it helps with 2).
The latest app, version 1.2.3, has been published in the Google Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm store and that version has this new feature. This is most likely the last release of the app this year. But if you have good ideas about photo uploads in general, or for improvements next year, feel free to post feedbackhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedback or send email mobile-feedback-l@lists.wikimedia.org.
You may also download the app here, or on the F-Droid market.
We appreciate your support and happy travels!