Mobile design/Uploads/status

Last update on: 2013-02-monthly

2013-01-monthly
This month, the mobile web team finished up work on the watchlist feature and kicked off a 3-month sprint on photo uploads. The focus in January was on developing basic uploading infrastructure: uploading images to Commons under a single Creative Commons license. We also built out the UX/UI design for a call to action on articles lacking images in the lead section. Through this workflow, users can upload an image to Commons and add a thumbnail of the image to the appropriate article on their local Wikipedia or sister project, in one simple step. We also developed a mobile uploads page where contributors can see their recent uploads and potentially donate more images from their mobile device to Commons. These features are currently live on the Beta mobile site and are set to be released to the full mobile site in February.

2013-03-monthly
In February we released the ability to upload and add images to articles lacking them to the full mobile web. We continued work on improving the upload and mobile file page views, for full productization in early March. We also explored two new upload workflows in alpha/beta: adding a call to action to articles that appear in the Nearby and Watchlist view, allowing users to quickly see articles near them that may need an image, take a photo and upload. Lastly, we began collaborating with the Fundraising team to enable CentralNotice on the mobile web, giving us the ability to deliver targeted banners to users who might be interested in trying out our new upload features or Commons apps.