Hello,
I was wondering if we could get around the problem of all the native mobile
apps by allowing mobile users to upload photos by email. I am thinking of
an email with a photo attached or pasted in the body of the message,
accompanied by text in the subject line or body of the form:
username:jane023
password:****
{{en|Duinlustweg 16 Overveen, Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. Next to park
"Middenduin".}}
{{Rijksmonument|514778}}
[[Category:Bloemendaal]]
You need the commons user login details, and the basic description and
unique identifier. The default date is the date of the email or the photo
date, but it could be optional to include category data if the user is
enough of a commons user to determine this. So the last line in the above
example could be optional.
Someone would need to set up a mail server that can auto-reply with a
failure message or confirmation upload link.
Is this possible? It could save people having to hassle with various mobile
application SDK's. It could also be handy for people to reuse their
messages as a template, if they take 10 or more photos of the same object
with different angles. The mail parser would need to create a file title
based off the description given.
Jane