Add page to tutorial to educate new users on what type of photo is needed

[misaochan]

From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_Android_App

I'm concerned by these two lines:

publicity is needed to inform non-Wikimedians about this app account creation from within the app The WMF already built a Mobile Media Uploads app aimed at non-editors. It had to be shut down. Editors know about copyright and they upload pictures that are useful for the project. Non-editors didn't. They uploaded massive numbers of selfies and copyvios that had to be researched and deleted. Any images that weren't outright deleted were generally useless. The rate of useful images was so low that it wasn't worth the cost of dredging thought the bad images to find anything worthwhile. Alsee (talk) 13:59, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

I think we could add a page to the tutorial (that new users see after installing the app) about this? To inform new users that selfies and copyright violations will be deleted.

[nicolas-raoul]

Yes, good idea! Some people do not read instructions but are receptive to red Xs.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Josephine Lim notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the pics. Do you think it is a good idea to place a transparent red 'X' over the top of the 'bad pics' to make it easier for lazy readers to understand?

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[misaochan]

Hi @nicolas-raoul ,

I've gotten all the pages up except the 'don't upload' page... I'm having issues overlaying the red X over the 'bad' pics. I'm following Inkscape tutorials like this one http://goinkscape.com/how-to-make-inkscapes-background-transparent/ , and then exporting the supposedly transparent file as PNG and using paint.net to to copy the X over the selfie etc pics, but the transparency just doesn't show up. This is a screenshot of what I mean, lol.

Do you know how we could get this to work?

[nicolas-raoul]

Select by color zone before making transparent :-) Sorry no pc for a while

On 5 Dec 2016 14:56, "Josephine Lim" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @nicolas-raoul https://github.com/nicolas-raoul ,

I've gotten all the pages up except the 'don't upload' page... I'm having issues overlaying the red X over the 'bad' pics. I'm following Inkscape tutorials like this one http://goinkscape.com/how-to- make-inkscapes-background-transparent/ , and then exporting the supposedly transparent file as PNG and trying to copy the X over the selfie etc pics, but the transparency just doesn't show up. This is a screenshot of what I mean, lol.

[image: transparency issue] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3611199/20876143/bfea01b4-bb24-11e6-8be9-7315f23b22a7.png

Do you know how we could get this to work?

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[misaochan]

I couldn't really figure it out, so instead I used the 'draw' tool within paint.net itself (it had an inbuilt 'X' symbol option, I didn't know that!). Sorry I wasn't able to use your symbol images.

Should be mostly done soon, I made some small modifications that weren't copied to the wiki, but no major content changes. Will do a release shortly.

[misaochan]

Screenshots have been added to the wiki, if no issues will release soon. :)

[misaochan]

Released in v1.40. Please do let me know if there are any problems.