Great input, thanks Lodewijk and Tomasz.
Your thoughts echo the thinking of the mobile team in terms of a broader
vision of mobile contributions. The difficulty is in biting off smaller
pieces that can realistically be achieved.
Making articles that are geo-tagged available is a current
Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org
Back to Lodewijk's idea of articles and monuments, we unfortunately have
an issue with monuments, simply because the database is not maintainable.
However, I have wondered about accessing monuments through the Wikipedia
pages that list them
Dear WLM Members,
The WLM Android app has been updated to v1.2.4, named Daigo-ji.
Release notes:
* Dynamically loads localization updates
* Clears large image previews before taking another photo - may help with
out of memory errors
* Stops Mobile to desktop upload category from being added to
Jon, the app won't work past Oct. because Tomasz doesn't want to keep the
DB functional. We are trying to think of a way to keep the momentum going.
On Sep 13, 2012 8:55 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
Completely agree! The app should pick up any added campaigns and monuments
that are
, if you want.
Thanks !
2012/9/11 Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org
Greetings WLM Members,
Version 1.2.3 of the WLM Android App is on Google
Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlmand
here http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk. We have made
some
Dear WLM Members,
We just updated the Android app with a change to the Upload more photos of
this monument link - it is now a template on Commons that can be localized.
Thanks, Jean-Frederic, for this suggestion, and for creating the template:
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
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/09/12 23:35, Platonides wrote:
On 12/09/12 21:28, Philip Chang
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 platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/12 00:42, Philip Chang wrote:
Just a note
Just a reminder that the campaign headers are an ideal place to show a link
to the Android app.
Here is an example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AUpload_campaign_header_wlm-us-ca%2Fendiff=77536062oldid=77022100
Here is the actual text to add:
and control. So why not upload mobile photos
as placeholders, to make camera submissions easier?
The following blog post, which will be published tomorrow, explains how
this works.
Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel
loghttp://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406
Posted by Philip Chang http
with this
feature.
Here is a draft of the blog post that will be published on Monday:
Desktop uploads from the Wiki Loves Monuments
Apphttp://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406
Posted by Philip Chang http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/pchang/ on
September 7th, 2012
A travelog is one of the great ways
://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_Ghana
Mobile banner added.
Thanks
Rexford
On 9/5/2012 9:06 PM, Philip Chang wrote:
Maarten, thanks for reminding us of the documentation.
There has been a change of direction due to the slow uptake of the app.
We are now
And sorry, I am referring to Wikipedia, not the wikilovesmonuments country
sites.
I am also hoping some folks will add the download link to the Upload Wizard
campaign header.
Phil
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks so much, Roel and Rexford
Platonides,
Is ID FIeld 2 definitely needed for Upload Wizard? Elke said it was not
needed for mobile uploads, but please confirm that too.
Thanks.
Phil
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Philip Chang wrote:
Yes
Also, is the contest template what goes into ID Field 1?
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Platonides,
Is ID FIeld 2 definitely needed for Upload Wizard? Elke said it was not
needed for mobile uploads, but please confirm that too.
Thanks.
Phil
-worlds-largest-photo-contest/
thanks!
Matthew
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi All,
The contest if off to a good start but traction for the mobile app is
lagging. So far we have 300+ uploads and about 1500 installs of the app.
In some countries
.
Op 5-9-2012 0:42, Philip Chang schreef:
Hi All,
The contest if off to a good start but traction for the mobile app is
lagging. So far we have 300+ uploads and about 1500 installs of the app.
In some countries, the app will broaden participation, so it is a good
idea to let your communities
to upload photos for later.
Phil
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Philip Chang wrote:
Platonides,
Is ID FIeld 2 definitely needed for Upload Wizard? Elke said it was
not needed for mobile uploads, but please
Greetings WLM Members,
We have updated the app on Google
Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlmwith
some important fixes and enhancements.
Here is a separate download link:
To add to Jon's comment, we are considering a simple UI change to make it
obvious that users can upload from mobile and then replace the images later
on the desktop.
This assumes that replacing files is allowed, based on the copyright
considerations discussed earlier in this thread.
If there is
.
Phil
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
El 04/09/12 21:13, Philip Chang escribió:
To add to Jon's comment, we are considering a simple UI change to make
it obvious that users can upload from mobile and then replace the images
later on the desktop
Hi All,
The contest if off to a good start but traction for the mobile app is
lagging. So far we have 300+ uploads and about 1500 installs of the app.
In some countries, the app will broaden participation, so it is a good idea
to let your communities know the app is available. We have created a
.
* 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 pch
Hi All,
There is a link to create an account on the login screen, which goes to:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogintype=signupuselang=en
Unfortunately we do not yet have a mobile version of Commons, due to many
factors. We wanted to squeeze that in but there
Greetings Wiki Loves Monuments Community,
The final release of the WLM Android App has been published on the Google
Play store!
We've made many improvements in the user interface and added some
functional enhancements in the past week (and more are coming). Now is the
time to download the app
offtime and again. Too many people really fail to
understand what localisation requires in our movement's ecosystem.
On Fri, August 31, 2012 09:38, Philip Chang wrote:
Greetings Wiki Loves Monuments Community,
The final release of the WLM Android App has been published on the Google
Play
Regarding the banner for the wikilovesmonuments country sites, we are
creating a new one and will have that posted shortly.
More soon.
Phil
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi All,
We have not had time to localize the text in the mobile banners. I
Here is a new banner for the country sites:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Marketing#Editable
This one can be edited easily, so feel free to translate the text.
Thanks.
Phil
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org wrote
Hi Itzik, thanks Cristian,
1. We are dependent on the phone's language setting. I do realize that
phones in some countries do not support the local language, which is a sad
state of affairs.
2. We are dependent on the data available in the monuments database and in
some cases there is no link to
Thanks, Maarten!
On Aug 30, 2012 7:18 AM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi everyone,
As you know we'll have a very nice mobile app for Wiki Loves Monuments
this year. For users using a normal computer, we use the CentralNotice
system to make them aware of Wiki Loves Monuments.
Hi Maarten,
As mentioned in the email thread about WLM marketing, the mobile banner has
been ready. Is there any news in terms of putting it on the main pages of
the languages you thought were appropriate?
Also, I wanted to remind country organizers that banners for the
wikilovesmonuments
Hi, thanks for your feedback. Copying the mobile team so we can look at
this.
Phil
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Tamara Petrovic bebaua...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
when I try to browse by campaign for Serbia, all I get is a lot of
question marks instead of region names. Are you still
Greetings WLM testers,
Below you'll find the last beta of our Android app before final launch in
one week.
As before, make sure to have Unknown sources in Settings = Applications
turned on.
Uploads will go to test wiki so feel free to upload whatever you like.
Download:
Yes, it would be great if Mediawiki gave us a unique alternative filename -
but we are out of time. Let's keep these thoughts for future enhancements.
Perhaps the timestamp down to minutes is sufficient to ensure uniqueness
for now, though one Commons admin pointed out that a timestamp is quite
Erik, thanks for the great feedback. Further to Jon's comments:
1) Brion, any idea if and why Cordova uses .jpeg instead of .jpg?
Unique name - originally we were going to include username and date/hr/min
(no seconds) - would that be acceptable? Derrick Coatzee commented in the
bug Jon
Greetings WLM testers,
Below you'll find a new beta of our android app that's very close to being
feature complete.
As before, make sure to have Unknown sources in Settings = Applications
turned on.
Uploads will go to test wiki so feel free to upload whatever you like.
Download:
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