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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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Coordination for Google Code-in screenshot taking tasks #930

Closed nicolas-raoul closed 9 months ago

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

Google Play screenshots are one of the most important things for users to know what the app is, and understand how it works. Currently we only have English screenshots:

https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/tree/master/design/screenshots

Below are the languages supported by Google Play (I removed the ones that have no localization in our app):

Afrikaans af Arabic ar Azerbaijani az-AZ Bangla bn-BD Basque eu-ES Bulgarian bg Catalan ca Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN Chinese (Traditional) zh-TW Danish da-DK Dutch nl-NL Finnish fi-FI French fr-FR Galician gl-ES Georgian ka-GE German de-DE Greek el-GR Hebrew iw-IL Hindi hi-IN Hungarian hu-HU Icelandic is-IS Indonesian id Italian it-IT Japanese ja-JP Kannada kn-IN Khmer km-KH Korean (South Korea) ko-KR Kyrgyz ky-KG Latvian lv Lithuanian lt Macedonian mk-MK Malay ms Malayalam ml-IN Marathi mr-IN Mongolian mn-MN Nepali ne-NP Norwegian no-NO Persian fa Polish pl-PL Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT Romanian ro Russian ru-RU Serbian sr Sinhala si-LK Slovak sk Spanish (Spain) es-ES Swedish sv-SE Tamil ta-IN Telugu te-IN Turkish tr-TR Ukrainian uk Vietnamese vi

psh commented 6 years ago

When you say "Swipe away all notifications, to make the screenshots cleaner" can I suggest a slightly different approach that works well with my commercial clients - I suggest

  1. Enable developer options
  2. In developer options, turn on "demo mode"

demo-mode

This will set the status bar to a fixed view and it wont matter what else is running.

neslihanturan commented 6 years ago

Hmm, what about choosing some photos and using only them to take screen shots? Because pictures, their name, description and category needs to be appropriate. I wrote this comment by looking at some problems at #940 by the way.

Plus, if it is not too hard for students, mock location apps can work to make nearby screen shoots look more native.

Edit: I am no longer supporter of my idea about taking screenshots for all languages with same pictures. Because it is not possible. On the other hand, since I can speak Turkish, I can say that descriptions, names and categories are correct for #940 . But I don't know how to control them for all other languages.

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

I am no longer supporter of my idea about taking screenshots for all languages with same pictures. Because it is not possible. It was a good idea, but why is it not possible? Because the app prevents uploading duplicates? We could ask the students to edit the image to alter a single pixel. By seeing 940 I realize that telling the students what pictures to upload is much safer, otherwise half of the screenshots will probably be unusable (necktie/cat/etc)

Mock location is also a great idea! I believe only rooted Android devices can do this, though? We could ask them to install an emulator, where the feature is available?

If we choose the pictures, we can choose some that have ample title/description/metadata in many languages, and we can tell them what categories to select. Hopefully students will be from various regions of the world, and will be able to find languages they can handle.

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

@misaochan Sorry to bother you, but would you mind building an APK that uploads to the beta Commons site (I think there is a flavor for this?), and uploading it to https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/releases ? This way, students will be able to use it to upload samples selected by me, without impacting Commons nor getting reverted as duplicates. I don't have access to an Android development environment at the moment :-/ Thanks a lot!!!

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

@psh: Now I re-read your comment and realized I totally missed the point, thanks for that great tip!

misaochan commented 6 years ago

@nicolas-raoul Is this still needed?

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

I am still hesitating between asking the students to upload to beta Commons or to the real one... I will settle within a day :-)

misaochan commented 6 years ago

Sure, let me know. :)

nicolas-raoul commented 6 years ago

I finally settled to ask each students to take 3 well-defined pictures, that will be on-topic on Commons, and hopefully good enough as screenshots. So no need for a beta Commons release now, even though that could be useful for other purposes like bug investigation :-)