[Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

[Jane Darnell]

Phil,
I tested the app update today and the new link for desktop use works great!
I was somewhat disappointed it just gives me the WLM identifier, without
prefilling the field for description, but when I am behind my computer it
is much easier to use copy&paste than with the mobile phone. Shouldn't this
feature be included  for the regular WLM uploader? If someone has already
uploaded through the WLM uploader, then it is much easier to  upload from
their picture than to scan the wikipedia lists (on some language Wikipedia
that is not Commons) for the identifier, no?

Also, as far as the update goes, my earlier issues seem to be fixed. I am
now able to choose the "nearby" option and then take a photo and upload
that directly. Previous to this update I needed to first take a foto and
then I could only use the app to upload from my gallery. I still notice
some problems with local positioning with the GPS (the GPS is at times off,
both for my position and for the monument positions), but this may just be
the way GPS works with my phone.
Jane

2012/9/13 Philip Chang <pchang at wikimedia.org>

> Ok, thanks. Let's see what happens.
>
> I believe most of the data issues in various countries have been fixed, so
> the app should be fairly universal at this point.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 13/09/12 00:42, Philip Chang wrote:
>> > Just a note that we noticed the translations on Translatewiki, in terms
>> > of the upload more string in the app, were taking a while. In fact, only
>> > Dutch was done today when we switched to the template.
>> >
>> > Since it may be easier for the WLM community to update the template, and
>> > the Translatewiki folks are dealing with a lot, perhaps we should see if
>> > the template gets enough translations by next week before switching to
>> > the Mediawiki message?
>> >
>> > Phil
>>
>> There was only one new translation added after Jean Fréreric message.
>> Anyway, Imvoed the four translations (plus a bonus one) to the message
>> when creating it (unmerged so far).
>>
>> I think TWN is better in the long term, but it could be faster with the
>> template if people is active here. We could manually move some messages
>> from one system to the other before doing a final switch.
>>
>> It's a pity we can't do {{#ifexist: MediaWiki:msg/xy}}, that would give
>> us the best of both worlds.
>>
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