Great input, thanks Lodewijk and Tomasz. Your thoughts echo the thinking of the mobile team in terms of a broader vision of mobile contributions. The difficulty is in biting off smaller pieces that can realistically be achieved. Making articles that are geo-tagged available is a current initiative and requires new infrastructure. We currently use Geonames in the WIkipedia apps, which is an external service and limited in usage volume. We want to add the nearby function to the mobile site (which has much higher traffic than the apps) and that is what is driving this new infrastructure currently. Then there is the idea of adding geo tags to articles. What a great usage of mobile! Photos are an easy way to do this (killing two birds with one stone), so your thinking is right in line with what we are hoping to do. But there are some issues around submitting geo coordinates, whether automatically or not, that have to be worked through. Back to Lodewijk's idea of articles and monuments, we unfortunately have an issue with monuments, simply because the database is not maintainable. However, I have wondered about accessing monuments through the Wikipedia pages that list them. So yes, there are a number of next steps to be pursued. I will have to defer to Howie and Maryana to pick this up, as today is technically my last day. But as I said, I will be available as a volunteer. Phil On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

Yes, and we are updating our DB from the toolserver DB. There seem to be several issues, and Tomasz Finc or Arthur can summarize them. In brief, we had to do things in a temporary way in order to meet the deadline. And there were reasons we used our DB instead of the one on toolserver, but once the contest is over, the traffic will be a lot less. Phil On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>wrote;wrote: -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810