{"id":1776,"date":"2013-05-06T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:34:30","slug":"contribute-to-wikimedia-commons-from-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Contribute to Wikimedia Commons from your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1777\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/05\/Commons_Android_App_-_Login_Screen.png\" alt=\"image of Wikimedia Commons Android app login screen\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1777\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Login screen on the Commons Android app<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> is a great resource: nearly 17 mn. freely usable media files that anyone can use for any purpose and to which anyone can contribute too!<\/p>\n<p>Making contributions to Wikimedia Commons is also getting easier: it&#8217;s now possible to transfer images to the Commons database from an Android or iOS smartphone using a free and advert-free mobile app. Features include the ability to view a stream of your contributions, upload multiple files and export to Commons using &#8211; if you&#8217;re on Android &#8211; that phone\u2019s share functionality. Your images will also be tagged with the GPS co-ordinates if GPS tagging is turned on.<\/p>\n<p>Wikimedia points out that by uploading your files to Commons, contributors will be doing more than if they just shared them with friends: they&#8217;ll be contributing the goal of spreading free knowledge around the world and sharing their work with billions of Wikipedia readers around the world (<em>Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world. Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.wikimedia.commons\">Android app<\/a> is available from Google Play, whilst the Apple Store features <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/wikimedia-commons\/id630901780\">the iOS app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The developers also hope to add more features in future and make it easier to browse and discover all the great content Commons has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>The app development team would like you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Apps\/Commons\/Support\">report any bugs<\/a>, as well as giving them your suggestions for new features. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikimedia Commons is a great resource: nearly 17 mn. freely usable media files that anyone can use for any purpose and to which anyone can contribute too! Making contributions to Wikimedia Commons is also getting easier: it&#8217;s now possible to transfer images to the Commons database from an Android or iOS smartphone using a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,9],"tags":[19,29,12],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-data","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-data","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}