[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more

[Erik Moeller]

Thought some of you might be interested in these developments :-)

We'll be doing lots of additional mobile hacking at the India
Hackathon this week:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011


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From: Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:58 AM
Subject: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more
To: commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org


Hi folks,

as you may or may not know, we ran a coding competition in October
which included mobile photo upload as one of the challenges.

You can see the submissions here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions

The submissions include a "Share with Commons" application for
Android. It can be installed through the Android market and the source
code is available on GitHub.

https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main
https://github.com/michiel1972/shareWithCommons

The application adds a "Share with Wikimedia Commons" option to the
"Share with" menu that's available in the Android Gallery app. That
is, when you're viewing a picture on your phone, you can easily upload
that particular picture to Commons through the same process that's
used for Picasa and other websites.

I've tested it, and it works. It doesn't prompt for categories and the
license selection is basically just a template field, but it gets the
job done. Images uploaded using the app are added to this category:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_uploaded_by_Android_app

We'll reach out to the author to see if they're interested in
continuing to develop it and host it in Wikimedia's SVN.

There are some other submissions as well:

* An effort to build uploading functionality into the official
Wikipedia Android app by User:Tpt

* Three iOS / Objective C implementations of varying degrees of
completeness. I haven't tested those yet, but we'll review them as
well and share notes.

The full list of submissions can be found here -- please add your own
comments on the talk page:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions

Thanks :)

Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate