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

[Philip Chang]

Hi Jane,

Thanks for this great feedback.

Yes, you are absolutely right, the Upload Wizard on Commons should use the
same feature, though it is not quite as applicable. I suppose it depends on
whether people upload all photos of a monument at the same time, or not.

As for the description field, that is currently not an available parameter
in pre-filling the Upload Wizard. I think the idea is that the description
is better for the user to fill out, and users should be encouraged to add a
description (granted, the Upload Wizard makes it mandatory). However, in
the mobile app we just fill it in and don't expose it to the user to
streamline the experience.

Please let us know what kind of phone and which version of Android you are
using, as that may give us some insight into the nature of the problem you
were having.

Thanks.

Phil


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Jane Darnell <jane023 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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