Hi everyone,
As an applicant of FOSS-OPW Round 7, I took a deep and profound interest in
one of the featured projects "Uploadwizard:OSM map embedding" . If chosen
or allowed I am planning to focus on this particular project.
****Project Synopsis***
"This project is about enhancing the image upload process for Wikimedia
Commons.
Commons has millions of images and Wikipedia editors need to be able to
find quickly the right ones for their articles, so it is important to store
various metadata with the image which will help navigation - topic of the
image, when it was made and so on. This metadata is usually stored in a
complex template language that is specific to MediaWiki, and the sight of
which usually makes people to flee in terror.
Since we cannot expect image authors to learn to write something like that,
Commons has a tool called UploadWizard which creates all the code for you,
after you fill out a bunch of forms. The main goal of the OSM map embedding
project would be to provide map interface & the integration with external
databases to the UploadWizard. (OSM stands for OpenStreetMap - a free map
application which is similar to Google Maps but not encumbered by
restrictive copyright.)
The secondary goal is to integrate with some databases of locations and use
that in various ways. One way would be checking if there are locations with
requested images nearby (that is, someone put out a note that Commons needs
good images about a certain place and doesn't currently have any), and warn
the uploader about them. Another involves image competitions where people
can participate with pictures taken at some predefined locations;
UploadWizard could get a list of these locations and use it to help the
participant in selecting where he took the photo."
- Mentor,Gergő Tisza
Expecting valuable comments and suggestions to improve the project from
vibrant MediaWiki community. :)