Last modified: 2014-09-22 20:36:03 UTC
File pages include lists of pages across WMF wikis where files are being used. This usage info should be available from within the app (e.g., via a button on the single file view). The user should be able to refresh this data (manually or automatically at daily/weekly intervals), and receive notifications when new instances of file usage are found.
We thought of doing this this iteration, but are punting it until Echo comes online - since notifications are prohibitively expensive without it.
If you just pulled the data and did the comparison to the previous data within the app, you could determine notifications within the app. Notifications would be new usage relative to the last time the app pulled data, rather than a universal 'new since you last checked on any device' notification that you'd get with Echo integration. Even without notification, though, in-app info about usage would be nice.
Problem is that it would be (at least) 1 request per new image. That doesn't really scale well, no? 2803 requests to check for new usages of your images? It would be nice, yes. Definitely at some point of time.
As the Mobile Apps Team is focussing on the new, native Wikipedia app, the Commons app is no longer being maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. I am WONTFIXing all open Commons app bugs to reflect that we will not be spending time fixing them. For the full story, see this thread on mobile-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-September/thread.html#7974
