Wikimedia Apps/Commons

Wikimedia Commons mobile app allows users to upload photos directly from their mobile phone into Commons, and is available for both Android and iOS.

Initially this app was created by the WMF, but because it had not been maintained for a while and the Mobile team was unable to allocate resources to it for the foreseeable future, it was removed from Play Store and App Store per this e-mail thread. Later, the app was picked up and revived by volunteers, who have been maintaining it ever since.

Rationale
Mobile phones have overtaken point and shoots as the most used cameras, yet there is no easy way to upload a picture from a mobile directly (and properly!) into Commons. This app aims to fix that.

Check out the source code for Android and iOS.

We are also working on uploads from the mobile web interface - see Mobile design/Uploads.

Use Case #1: Simple Upload for experienced Commons user
Galadriel is an experienced Commons user who already has uploaded many files to Commons using the UploadWizard. She is taking a nice evening stroll when she comes across a scene that would make a wonderful addition to Commons. She has a phone with a nice camera, so takes a picture with the inbuilt camera app. Instead of going home, remembering to transfer the image, and then uploading it, she wants to be able to upload it then and there - and then move on. She is a good Commons citizen, so wants to make sure that the title is descriptive and appropriate categories are added.

Features
End Goal: Have an app that experienced commons users can use to easily upload Media

Each commons app will at the least have the following features. Additional features will be platform specific.

from: Mobile Strategy: Jan-Mar 2013 by hfung
 * Login
 * Account Creation
 * Tracking
 * Discovery/Browse (to give users a reason to use app)
 * Single upload
 * Multiple upload
 * My contributions
 * Queues
 * Campaigns
 * Completely free and 100% free of any advertisements.
 * GPS tag your photos

Acceptance Criteria

 * 1) Able to upload any image from the Phone to Commons (via Android 'Share')
 * 2) Easily add a title & description
 * 3) Easily add as many categories as needed, with autocomplete to make adding accurate categories faster
 * 4) Shows progress of upload and a notification when upload is complete
 * 5) Taking and uploading a photo to commons should be as fast as uploading a picture to Instagram

Needs Design (in priority order)

 * My Contributions
 * Upload (non intent or gallery based)
 * Account creation
 * Discovery/Browse
 * Upload Later
 * single contribution view along with image usage
 * assets (icons - action bar, status bar etc) for ios and android



Reports

 * 1) Total Uploads
 * 2) Total Unique Users uploading
 * 3) Details of uploads failing for non-network reasons (Title blacklist, etc).
 * 4) Graphs of different entry points to the app - Camera vs Gallery vs Share Intents (Android)
 * 5) Cancellations rates for the action intents (Camera, Gallery, Share)
 * 6) Failure stats for Login
 * 7) Inactive Logins (people who have logged in but have not uploaded)

Having everything splittable by Platforms (Devices, Operating Systems, App versions) would be nice too.

Schemas

 * 1) meta:Schema:MobileAppLoginAttempts
 * 2) meta:Schema:MobileAppUploadAttempts