Hi Jane,
Op 8-5-2012 16:14, Jane Darnell schreef:
Hello,
I was wondering if we could get around the problem of all the
native mobile apps by allowing mobile users to upload photos by
email. I am thinking of an email with a photo attached or
pasted in the body of the message, accompanied by text in the
subject line or body of the form:
username:jane023
password:****
{{en|Duinlustweg 16 Overveen, Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. Next
to park "Middenduin".}}
{{Rijksmonument|514778}}
[[Category:Bloemendaal]]
That's a security nightmare.
You need the commons user login details, and the basic
description and unique identifier. The default date is the date
of the email or the photo date, but it could be optional to
include category data if the user is enough of a commons user to
determine this. So the last line in the above example could be
optional.
I would opt for using a shared bot account. You would need some sort
of system to get your own personal emailadress
<somestrangecode>@submit.wikilovesmonuments.org . This would
have a bot upload the image for you and leave a note on your talk
page so you can find it back later on.
Someone would need to set up a mail server that can
auto-reply with a failure message or confirmation upload link.
Is this possible? It could save people having to hassle with
various mobile application SDK's. It could also be handy for
people to reuse their messages as a template, if they take 10 or
more photos of the same object with different angles. The mail
parser would need to create a file title based off the
description given.
Making a prototype shouldn't be too hard. Implementing all the
features might be a bit more difficult.
Maarten
Jane
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