Last modified: 2014-09-22 20:15:08 UTC
=== PROBLEM === Whenever I use the app, I waste considerable time trying to find what is the most appropriate geographical neighboorhood I should classify the picture into. In practice, it leads to many uncategorized pictures and worse, mis-categorized pictures, which are hard to spot later. === SOLUTION === If the picture has geographical EXIF data, then request some server (hosted at Labs?) to return the 5 nearest geographical categories. The request can be done in parallel with the upload. Show these 5 as suggested categories. === EFFECT === Less mis-categorization Picture are more findable and useful Less criticism of "App pictures being useless"
Here is the list of all 75,935 geographical categories: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Categories_with_coordinates
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
