Hello, I'd like to share some discussion points we had recently with the foundation's mobile app development. I would highly appreciate your opinions, ideas and thoughts. Unfortunately, my next call with WMF is already tomorrow evening (sorry for that).
The WMF will most probably develop an upload app for smartphones. We are invited to provide ideas and requests for our - WLM - needs. The basic, most simplified upload workflow would be borrowed from the upload wizard and adapted to smartphones for the mobile Wikipedia browser app. Another idea is an advanced workflow that would be provided already as an Android or iPhone app (based on the PhoneGap framework), with extended options for geolocation, additional campaigns like WLM or uploading an image straight from the article (monuments list...) >From my point of view, the most realistic approach (given WMF's depolyment cycles and the timeline) is the basic mobile browser app - that does not help us very much for WLM in its basic design, and due to iOS restrictions it most probably would not work for iPhones. However, maybe it could be slightly extended for our needs. >From your point of view: 0) How do you generally feel about the mobile upload app for WLM - from an international perspective? 1) What do you generally think would be a minimal requirement to make a mobile app usable/helpful for WLM? 2) What would be next on your wishlist to make it real fun? 3) Any ideas how a team of volunteer developers could support staff developers effectively with the mobile app? (I'll have to discuss that) 4) anything I did not consider here? Some details about the plans can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MobileFrontend/Photo_upload#Wiki_Loves_Monuments Thanks for your feedback! Regards, Elke _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu