Hi Philip,
just to improve my understanding: what do you see as fundamentally
different between using the app, and using any other upload method? The app
developers are still working on integrating a campaign mode into the app,
so there is some wiggle space in how to make that happen (although I don't
want to speak for them, that is my best understanding). There would have to
be at least the same amount of autofill information in the app as there is
currently in the form, either straight from wikidata/monuments database or
with a bot afterwards.
You do touch on a relevant issue: what data is most accurate to use. This
is probably a question that lands differently from country to country. We
may want to dig a bit deeper in general into how to improve this process.
But that is beyond what we can expect from the app :)
Best,
Lodewijk
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Krishna,
which data is this based on and how will the campaign data be filled from
the android app? As far as I'm aware, there's no automatism to prefill said
data and it would be quite an additional burden on volunteers to have to
sift through pictures uploaded via the app that are missing categories and
descriptions that are otherwise prefilled.
If the source used is indeed Wikidata, at least in Austria that data
hasn't been accurate ever since Wikimania Montreal.
BR,
Philip
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 20:04, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvelaga(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:33 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvelaga(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Please check the following message from Wikimedia Commons Android app
team, regarding WLM integration into the app.
(I am forwarding, as Josephine was unable to post to the list.)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Josephine Lim <josephinelim86(a)gmail.com>
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:48:12 +1000
Subject: WLM integration in Commons app
Hi all,
Just wanted to let you all know that we are planning to implement WLM
integration into the Commons app (an Android app for users to upload photos
to Commons) in the near future. :) Due to the current situation, we are
unable to provide concrete estimates for when it will be completed, however
I can say that September is unlikely, November might be possible, and in
the worst case scenario it will certainly be done by 2021.
In the next month or two, I hope to be able to provide more details and
a clearer timeline, and we will also start taking suggestions from
organizers etc for desired features at that stage. I will post an update
here as soon as possible.
We look forward to working with all of you to make WLM participation
easier. :)
Best regards,
Josephine / User:misaochan (Commons app project lead)
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