User:Jmorgan (WMF)/Commons Upload Wizard user study

Goals

 * 1) To better understand the motivations and experiences of skilled photographers uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons.
 * 2) To better understand the experience of using Upload Wizard on a tablet computer.

Rationale
Attracting more experienced photographers to our movement could have a positive impact on content quality. However, experienced photographers are an important class of "power" content contributors who are not specifically supported by any current software products.

Experienced photographers often process their photos using specialized photo editing software tools before uploading their photos to social media sites. Over the past few years, tablet computer screens and processors have improved significantly, and there are many photo editing apps available for iOS, Android, and Windows tablets. Some photographers now use tablets rather than laptop or desktop PCs to edit their photos. Many photo sharing services, like VSCO, Flickr, and Instagram, provide tablet-optimized apps that allow photographers to browse, upload, and organize photos. Wikimedia currently lacks a dedicated (maintained) Commons Upload app, so it would be useful to evaluate the feasibility of uploading images on a tablet via the vanilla website using the Upload wizard extension, so that we might have a baseline against which to compare any future uploading interfaces.