Phil, I tested the app update today and the new link for desktop use works great! I was somewhat disappointed it just gives me the WLM identifier, without prefilling the field for description, but when I am behind my computer it is much easier to use copy&paste than with the mobile phone. Shouldn't this feature be included for the regular WLM uploader? If someone has already uploaded through the WLM uploader, then it is much easier to upload from their picture than to scan the wikipedia lists (on some language Wikipedia that is not Commons) for the identifier, no?
Also, as far as the update goes, my earlier issues seem to be fixed. I am now able to choose the "nearby" option and then take a photo and upload that directly. Previous to this update I needed to first take a foto and then I could only use the app to upload from my gallery. I still notice some problems with local positioning with the GPS (the GPS is at times off, both for my position and for the monument positions), but this may just be the way GPS works with my phone. Jane
2012/9/13 Philip Chang pchang@wikimedia.org
Ok, thanks. Let's see what happens.
I believe most of the data issues in various countries have been fixed, so the app should be fairly universal at this point.
Phil
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Platonides platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/12 00:42, Philip Chang wrote:
Just a note that we noticed the translations on Translatewiki, in terms of the upload more string in the app, were taking a while. In fact, only Dutch was done today when we switched to the template.
Since it may be easier for the WLM community to update the template, and the Translatewiki folks are dealing with a lot, perhaps we should see if the template gets enough translations by next week before switching to the Mediawiki message?
Phil
There was only one new translation added after Jean Fréreric message. Anyway, Imvoed the four translations (plus a bonus one) to the message when creating it (unmerged so far).
I think TWN is better in the long term, but it could be faster with the template if people is active here. We could manually move some messages from one system to the other before doing a final switch.
It's a pity we can't do {{#ifexist: MediaWiki:msg/xy}}, that would give us the best of both worlds.
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