Hi Philip,<div><br></div><div>that sounds like a great idea. Although I wouldn&#39;t limit it to articles alone, but &#39;topics&#39;. We could combine all articles with geo coordinates (set one) with all monuments we already have in the database. Probably it would be good to build in a way to exclude some topics from this functionality (such as articles about huge areas, i.e. &#39;France&#39;). </div>

<div><br></div><div>If that works properly and is maintained well, it would be easy next year to build another app, because you would just copy the app, give it some different colors in the skin and just let it work from the monument database alone, instead of the full geo-tagged set. </div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not sure what resources it would require and how realistic that is, but I think it might actually motivate quite some people. </div><div><br></div><div>Would it be possible to &#39;disable&#39; the WLM app and explain people where to find the new app which is more general in its approach? </div>

<div><br></div><div>Lodewijk<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/28 Philip Chang <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pchang@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">pchang@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Here is an idea:<div><br></div><div>Turn the WLM app into a similar app for uploading photos related to Wikipedia articles. This was in fact the original goal of the mobile photo upload project.</div><div><br></div><div>
One take on this is to use the Nearby search and article search as a way to find articles, then the upload will be given a title related to the article and some metadata can include the article ID.</div>

<div><br></div><div>The WLM app will otherwise run the risk of not being functional past October, due to backend issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a quick thought. Let the mobile team know if you think this is a good idea.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Phil<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Phil Inje Chang<br>Former Product Manager, Mobile<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><br>
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