This post from the thread last month might shed some light on the problems with mobile uploads: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-April/008986.html

The short answer is that the teams that were Mobile Apps and Mobile Web are now part of the broader Readership Department, so won't be working on anything related to mobile uploads. There is a Multimedia Team https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Multimedia in the Editing Department. I'd suggest speaking to them about it.

The longer answer is that I think campaign proposals should be holistic. If the campaign wants to make mobile uploads a priority, then the campaign should not rely on some other subunit of the movement doing a total change in priorities to accommodate that. That's just not very realistic.

A simple little app, managed by the organisers of the campaign, to upload images for a specific campaign seems like a much better approach to this problem. Image uploading functionality is available over our APIs, which are open and well documented, so it's perfectly doable. You'll have a pretty easy time finding app developers looking for work; the number of people in the world who develop apps is much, much higher than the number of people who develop MediaWiki extensions. It needn't be a mobile app either; one could easily make a little web app that uses the API that's hosted in Labs if you prefer. You could budget for app development that in whatever budgeting requests you make to support the campaign, then you're the one that's in total control of it. This is *exactly* why we make our APIs totally open, so that people can do this kind of thing!

That said, these are just my opinions as a person who leads product development teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. I am not an authority on how the grantmaking system works or should work. :-)

Dan

On 16 May 2015 at 09:43, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:

Hi Fsn,

not wanting to second guess or anything, but will the functionality (being able to upload something easily from mobile, especially using campaign infrastructures - and ideally connectable with other tools so that photo competitions can use it) become available in another way?

Best, Lodewijk

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Hi Ivan,

There are no plans right now to resume work on the Commons app. You can

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the rationale in the thread on this last month: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-April/008970.html

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2015-05-16 3:45 GMT-07:00 Ivan Martínez galaver@gmail.com:

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Hi, There is some update about Wikimedia Commons mobile app or it is

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do something about it? Thanks,

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