[Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

[Philip Chang]

I walked through this idea with Matthew and we came up with a refinement:

On the user page, would it make sense to show the file as a link to its
file page and also show a link to the Upload Wizard with all of the
parameters for that monument?

If so, I have a question: What exactly is the format of the parameters in
the link?

On the page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard#URL_arguments
it lists these parameters:

* campaign: Specifies which [[/Campaigns|upload campaign]] to use.
* skiptutorial: Sets if the licensing tutorial should be skipped or not.
The value should be "1" or "true" to skip.
* id: Sets the initial value for the id field.
* description: Sets the initial value for the description field.
* lat: Sets the initial value for the latitude field.
* lon: Sets the initial value for the longitude field.
* alt: Sets the initial value for the altitude field.
* categories: Sets the initial value for the categories field, multiple
categories seperated by |.

But is all of this required, and where are the templates? Could someone
send a sample URL with the necessary parameters present?

Thanks.

Phil


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Philip Chang <pchang at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Yes, you are right, we can create a subpage automatically and presumably
> update it easily.
>
> Regarding the time issue, wouldn't that be limited automatically by the
> contest duration? If the user does not replace the photo within the month
> of Sep., then the mobile upload would simply participate on its own merits.
>
> This feature would simply add an option to the normal mobile upload, so a
> photo of the monument would still be uploaded. It just adds some
> record-keeping ability.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/09/12 23:15, Philip Chang wrote:
>> > Thanks for this feedback.
>> >
>> > A user subpage sounds good but the issue is how to create that from the
>> app.
>>
>> Hmm, it should be easy: action=edit&title=User:Pchang/Files%20
>>
>> to_upload_later&appendtext=*%20DSC0001.JPG%20From+the+top+of+Eiffel+Tower.%0A&summary=Adding+note+using+the+Mobile+App+to+upload+from+the+Desktop+the+file+
>> DSC0001.JPG&token=...
>>
>>
>>
>> > What I am imagining is adding a category to those specific uploads,
>> > something like, "To be replaced on desktop."
>> >
>> > This will help users find them later and would provide some indicator to
>> > admins.
>>
>> The main problem is when to consider an upload-to-be abandoned. How long
>> will it take the user to upload it from home? A couple of days? A week?
>> A month?
>> It doesn't seem unlikely that a user waits up to a month to upload his
>> vacation photos (to begin with he may need to go back home from the
>> country he is visiting, and then he will have more priority issues than
>> uploading to Commons). But leaving a placeholder file for a month seems
>> too much IMHO.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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