October 2011 Coding Challenge/Mobile

Of course, Mobile Wikipedia is great for learning about the things around you. But: We need pictures. Millions of people have phones. How can we take advantage of location and mobile cameras? Build an app, or extend the existing mobile gateway, to demonstrate your ideas.

Using the MediaWiki Upload API
If you're going to upload pictures, you probably need to know how the Upload API works.

Using Location APIs
GeoNames has a great API that allows you to pass in a latitude and a longitude and get back a long list of interesting places nearby. Here's an example query for that API]]. You can also read more about how GeoNames works at the GeoNames site.

You can also use the |London|Paris&prop=images&redirects&imlimit=max Wikipedia query API to find interesting locations by name.

Mobile Application Development for Wikipedia
There are new tools that can help you write your Mobile wikipedia application. PhoneGap is a great open source platform for mobile development, which also has a Wikipedia-specific Android frontend app.


 * Extension:MobileFrontend FIXME: not sure what the point of this is