Mobile design/Uploads/status

Last update on: 2013-03-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 March, we added the ability to easily upload a lead image to articles that lack one in the stable version of the mobile site. We also deployed a workaround for an issue we discovered with heightened security features in some newer browsers that make logging in to all the projects via CentralAuth impossible in certain circumstances, which had prevented a number of users from being able to upload photos via the mobile site. We are now well on our way to reach our goal of 1000 unique uploaders/month by the end of the fiscal year. Also of note, we've added thumbnails of lead images from articles in the mobile watchlist view as well as a 'last modified' timestamp on articles in the stable version of the mobile site. We are currently focussing on some performance enhancements for the mobile site, will graduate the 'uploads dashboard' feature from beta to stable, will further refine our photo upload features, and expose a feature to identify articles on subjects near your current location to the beta version of the site in April.