Without spending too much time can someone point me to a rationale why the app 
was sunset in the first place.

IIRC the plan was to introduce a framework to allow campaigns to happen similar 
to the wiki loves monuments app. 


> On 14-Apr-2015, at 6:33 pm, Vibha Bamba <vba...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> From a user behavior perspective, selecting lead images and uploading images 
> from nearby are very real opportunities that we want to bring into native 
> apps. Its a matter of having all the questions answered. Our experience from 
> commons will be useful, making this a V2 attempt.
> 
> Some thoughts:
> 
> - We can prevent noise (face detection, location awareness, exif data) on 
> apps better than we did on mobile web.
> - Lets think of smart phones cameras as one of our key channels for 
> increasing media content on articles.
> - Media plays an important role in learning, while it is a low barrier to 
> entry and gives contributors rich immediate feedback.
> 
> Just like lead images, we have the time now to start preparing for this 
> contribution.
> 
> Thanks
> Vibha
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Brian Gerstle <bgers...@wikimedia.org> 
>> wrote:
>> From the README:
>> 
>> "Wikimedia Foundation doesn't care anymore, but we do."
>> 
>> Maybe we can fold some of the Commons functionality into the main app as we 
>> ramp up contribution flows?
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:45 PM, James Alexander <jalexan...@wikimedia.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Awesome!
>>> 
>>> /Downloads/
>>> 
>>> James Alexander
>>> Community Advocacy
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> That's incredible. I'd hoped to see something like this happen, and I'm 
>>>> glad it did. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Dan
>>>> 
>>>>> On 14 April 2015 at 13:14, Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The old Commons mobile app got forked, see 
>>>>> https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/commons-reloaded/id962894692?mt=8 and 
>>>>> https://github.com/lyrk/Commons :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maarten
>>>>> 
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