Greetings WLM Members,<div><br></div><div>Version 1.2.3 of the WLM Android App is on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm" target="_blank">Google Play</a> and <a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk">here</a>. We have made some improvements and in particular, there is an important enhancement related to camera photos.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Yes, camera photos. Please let me explain.</div><div><br></div><div>The app is a great way to find monuments, but many participants in WLM use cameras to take the photos they will submit to the contest.</div>


<div><br></div><div>It is great to submit mobile photos to the contest as well, but cameras generally offer better quality and control. So why not upload mobile photos as placeholders, to make camera submissions easier?</div>


<div><br></div><div>The following blog post, which will be published tomorrow, explains how this works.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="border-bottom-width:1px;padding-top:0.5em;width:auto;font-weight:normal;padding-bottom:0.17em;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-bottom-style:solid;line-height:28px;overflow:hidden;font-size:24px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0px;background-repeat:repeat repeat;background-image:none">


<a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel log" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel log</a></h1>


<div style="line-height:19px;font-size:12px;margin-bottom:1.2em;font-family:sans-serif">Posted by <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/pchang/" title="Posts by Philip Chang" rel="author" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Philip Chang</a> on September 10th, 2012</div>


<div style="line-height:19px;font-size:13px;overflow:auto;font-family:sans-serif"><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">The Wiki Loves Monuments <a title="Google Play" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Android App</a> is a great way to take photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons during <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/29/kicking-off-wiki-loves-monuments-2012/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">the world’s largest photo contest</a> throughout September. But what if you are shooting with a camera and don’t see yourself taking too many photos with your mobile phone? You can now use the app as a convenient travel log and make it much easier to organize your photos when processing and uploading them at home.</p>


<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">Here’s how you use the app as a travel log. As you walk around finding monuments nearby to shoot with your camera, use the app on your phone to find the monuments and take a picture of them to upload, either on the road or when you get home. Back on your computer, your uploaded mobile photos will be a convenient record of all the monuments you visited, sitting on Commons under “My uploads.”</p>


<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">As an added bonus, every mobile upload you add to Commons will include a link to the Special Upload Wizard that automatically allows you to upload and categorize more photos of that monument based on its campaign and reference number. This is similar to clicking the “upload photo” button on the monument lists in Wikipedia, but it is right there in your travel log.</p>


<div style="background-color:rgb(249,249,249);border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-top:3px;margin:4px auto;text-align:center;width:710px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><img title="Upload More Photos 2" src="http://blog.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Upload-More-Photos-2-700x277.png" alt="" width="700" height="277" style="border:0px none;vertical-align:middle;margin:0px;padding:0px"></a><p style="margin:0px;line-height:17px;font-size:11px;padding:0px 4px 5px">


A screenshot of the new travel log feature associated with WLM app photos uploaded to Commons.</p></div><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">To see your travel log and use this feature, you must login at <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/commons.wikimedia.org" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">commons.wikimedia.org</a> and click on “My uploads” at the top. Click on the name of any uploaded photo and the file page of that photo will open. Scroll down and below the description you will see the link, “Upload more photos of this monument.”</p>


<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">The travel log can help you in two ways:</p><ol style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">you will see a sequential list of the monuments you visited, which helps in identifying the monuments taken on your camera</li>


<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">you can submit the photos from your camera for each monument directly from the travel log</li></ol><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">The latest app, version 1.2.3, has been published in the <a title="Google Play" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Google Play</a> store and that version has this new feature. Please update the app if you downloaded it before and do not have auto-updates turned on. If you have good ideas about photo uploads in general, or improvements next year, feel free to post <a title="Blog feedback" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedback" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">feedback</a> or send <a title="WLM Android App blog feedback" href="mailto:mobile-feedback-l@lists.wikimedia.org" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">email</a>.</p>


<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">You may also download the app <a title="download link" href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">here</a>, or on the <a title="F-Droid link" href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=wiki%20loves%20monuments&amp;fdid=org.wikipedia.wlm&amp;fdpage=1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">F-Droid market</a>.</p>


<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em">We appreciate your support. Happy uploading!</p><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5em"><em>Phil Chang, Product Manager, Mobile</em></p><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">


<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><span>Copyright notes:</span> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">&quot;Upload more photos&quot;</a> by <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philinje" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Philinje</a>, under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported</a>, from Wikimedia Commons</li>


</ul></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Phil Inje Chang<br>Product Manager, Mobile<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><a href="tel:415-812-0854" value="+14158120854" target="_blank">415-812-0854</a> m<br><a href="tel:415-882-7982%20x%206810" value="+14158827982" target="_blank">415-882-7982 x 6810</a><br>

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