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The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
https://commons-app.github.io/
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Signup/Login wih Social Network Account #1095

Open Sylvia23 opened 6 years ago

Sylvia23 commented 6 years ago

Most of the apps have this very useful and commom feature to login/signup with social network acoount. Social network APIs or SDKs can be intergrated in the android app which makes it very easy to login/signup and share your actions. So, I think it should be there in this app as well. For example, screenshot from 2018-01-23 11-43-57signup_socialacc

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

I think we can not provide more login options than what is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page

While Mediawiki has extensions for this (such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Facebook) I am not sure whether they are enabled on Commons or not.

whym commented 6 years ago

On the server side the possibility of enabling social media login seems to be slim: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61631 - it's more of a policy issue than a technical issue.

We could perhaps create a UI that helps users to create a Wikimedia Commons account using information pulled from their social media accounts, though. It would have to be carefully implemented to avoid creating duplicate accounts. EDIT: actually, it would work for signup only unlike other sites - so I admit this might only make it confusing.

Somewhat related: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30085 is an open issue about enabling email login.