Hi Tomasz, thank you for your e-mail; we appreciate your time, your involvement and your work on software issues critical (or just needed) to make Wiki Loves Monuments better.
We understand the issues that made you abandon the 2012 WLM Android app, and we're grateful for the effort that the whole mobile team put into it last year. We are aware that the app might not have met your goals about the number of unique uploaders, but it has still provided us with valuable content and experience, and we hope it will also be the case this year.
So, if I understand your e-mail correctly: * (1) The mobile team is going to work on improving a generic photo-taking application that has nothing to do with Wiki Loves Monuments (directly); * (2) You are going to work on implementing already existing UploadCampaigns within the mobile app, which includes the creation of a new Campaign: namespace using JSON (similar to the Schema: namespace on Meta Wiki), which fixes bug 30645[1].
At the beginning of your e-mail, you wrote that you "wanted to use this thread to collect our ideas". I'm not exactly sure what this means, because what you wrote sounds to me like you're going to continue your work as if Wiki Loves Monuments did not exist, not like if you really wanted to collect opinions from us.
It so happens that the Foundation's annual plan for fiscal year 2013-14 has been released today, and I took some time to read it. Unsurprisingly, Wiki Loves Monuments is mentioned there a couple of times, just as it was mentioned in the AP for 2012-13 and in plenty of WMF reports, interviews, blog posts and other PR materials during the past year or two.
That said, I'm quite suprised to see how low on the Foundation's list of priorities supporting Wiki Loves Monuments lies. Don't get me wrong: I do appreciate the work put into the creation of the new Campaigns: namespace (bug 30645 is truly horrible), the inclusion of UploadCampaigns in the mobile app and all the other small changes to come, most of which are linked from [2] -- but it doesn't change my feeling on discovering that the Foundation's pet community project and the source of hope among the ever-decreasing editor numbers so visible on monthly charts is actually left without almost any organization support.
/Disclaimer:/ The views expressed in this e-mail are solely mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the whole Wiki Loves Monuments international team or other organizations with which I am or might be associated.
== References == * [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42164 * [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42164
-- Tomasz