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