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The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
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Enhancement requests: Add images in the user gallery, EXIF date taken #1698

Open Czeva opened 6 years ago

Czeva commented 6 years ago

Hi, I would like to suggest making two enhancements of the Commons app:

  1. It would be nice if the app could add the uploaded images in the user gallery, as VicuňaUploader can, letting the user choose the size of the image, name of the part of the gallery, and whether the new bit should go to the top or bottom of the page.

  2. I have noticed that the date uploaded to Commons probably takes the date of the upload, not the image date taken. Similarly to how VicuňaUploader does it, it is the date taken that should be uploaded, IMHO, not the current date, unless the user wants it to be different. What happened today is that the date uploaded was today's one (upload date), not the one of digitalizing the image, i.e. taking the photo, which was 2 days ago. Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vy%C5%A1n%C3%BD_(%C4%8Cesk%C3%BD_Krumlov),_U_Kas%C3%A1ren_(01).jpg - had to change the date to the correct one, apart from having to add categories which failed to upload (it is dealt with in another thread).

I am not able to help solving the issue but will gladly participate in testing any changes.

Thanks for considering the suggestions, Czeva

misaochan commented 6 years ago

Hi @Czeva , thanks for the suggestions!

For (1), do you mean that you would like the images automatically added to your Commons user page gallery?

(2) is a really good point! We need to work on this soon, it is currently tracked here #1013

Czeva commented 6 years ago

Hi @misaochan , thanks for the quick reply.

For (1), yes - if the uploader chooses to paste the thumbs in his/her gallery, it is their responsibility to get rid of excessive numbers of photos by creating gallery subpages. The same thing is offered when uploading through VicunaUploader and I guess it works fine. I had to include those uploaded though the app in the gallery manually (and add the categories, as mentioned in the other thread you have also replied to: #310).

As for (2), sorry I did not find the link #1013. I just found out by accident after having uploaded one more photo later. I'm happy you guys know about it :-)