Magnus Manske, 16/04/2015 11:02:
There is no "fear" of more Commons users; there is (valid) concern that Commons will get a large influx of pictures from one-time users
Let's not mix things up, I'm not aware of such a concern. Once again: the old mobile upload campaign attracted a lot of garbage because it solicited uploads out of context and reinvented the upload process in a way which made it very hard to enter the correct information about files. Making "standard" interfaces available for mobile users as well is mere feature parity and presents no issues. Only people who "know" they want to upload etc. will use them; that's good. Feature parity for the site means that mobile users as well as app users have an "upload" link in the tools and that the target is exactly like UploadWizard. Feature parity for Commons in general means that, as desktop users have many upload tools suitable for desktop, mobile users have something that integrates with their camera apps or whatever, as Amir says. Both are obvious goals and should be filed in Phabricator. (There should be always a bug filed for any feature parity issue.) As Emmanuel says, another (or even the main) blocker here might not be on the software side but rather on the networking side. We've had reports in the past of uploads being extremely hard from Hong Kong... imagine Africa indeed. Adding a caching datacentre somewhere is certainly welcome by most, when it's possible. :) The Mobile team could ask ops to help with some metrics on how frequent it is for mobile users to have networking conditions insufficient for uploading files.
Nemo