Sure, they are not super high quality, but a photo from a smartphone can be good enough to become a Quality Image. [1] Your second comment is really important, it is easy to shoot a video from the phone, but a pain to upload it. Right now you first have to transfer it to the computer and then convert it to ogv before you can upload it. A stage area where you upload videos where they are batchconverted to ogv would be nice.
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kiev_monument_140.jpg
/Jan Ainali
2012/4/11 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
hi elya,
if the mobile app helps:
- to locate the monument
- to show what fotos already exist
- to enter the contest
- to add metadata
it would be nice.
but i cannot imagine a workflow which helps uploading high quality images. i like the mobile strategy a lot - but developping an upload app is maybe too tempting nowadays as instagram got bought by facebook.
rupert
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 21:27, elya ew_wp@web.de wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to share some discussion points we had recently with the foundation's mobile app development. I would highly appreciate your opinions, ideas and thoughts. Unfortunately, my next call with WMF is already tomorrow evening (sorry for that).
The WMF will most probably develop an upload app for smartphones. We are invited to provide ideas and requests for our - WLM - needs.
The basic, most simplified upload workflow would be borrowed from the upload wizard and adapted to smartphones for the mobile Wikipedia browser app.
Another idea is an advanced workflow that would be provided already as an Android or iPhone app (based on the PhoneGap framework), with extended options for geolocation, additional campaigns like WLM or uploading an image straight from the article (monuments list...)
From my point of view, the most realistic approach (given WMF's depolyment cycles and the timeline) is the basic mobile browser app - that does not help us very much for WLM in its basic design, and due to iOS restrictions it most probably would not work for iPhones. However, maybe it could be slightly extended for our needs.
From your point of view:
- How do you generally feel about the mobile upload app for WLM - from
an international perspective?
- What do you generally think would be a minimal requirement to make a
mobile app usable/helpful for WLM? 2) What would be next on your wishlist to make it real fun? 3) Any ideas how a team of volunteer developers could support staff developers effectively with the mobile app? (I'll have to discuss that) 4) anything I did not consider here?
Some details about the plans can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MobileFrontend/Photo_upload#Wiki_Loves_Monume...
Thanks for your feedback!
Regards, Elke
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