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Use GPS location to deliver locally relevant messages about copyright (for people uploading pictures)
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User:NotASpy made a suggestion about two-thirds of the way through this discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-07-19

If a person is using a GPS-enabled mobile device to take an upload a picture, then we could use the GPS data to provide customized messages to them. For example, the mesage for a user in Russia would be different from the message delivered to useres in Mexico.

This would allow users to get relevant copyright information, e.g., that freedom of panorama is extremely limited in Russia, but very broad in Mexico.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:30 AM
• bzimport added a project: MobileFrontend-General-or-Unknown.
• bzimport set Reference to bz68770.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Jul 28 2014, 9:38 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Jul 28 2014, 9:40 PM

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/mdUSvjce

kaldari added a comment.Jul 28 2014, 10:45 PM

That sounds like a great idea, but quite ambitious. Keeping the software up to date with what to show where would be quite a challenge. So far, it seems the bigger problem is just getting mobile uploaders to care about copyright at all (as many of them are just uploading images from the web).

Florian added a comment.Jul 31 2014, 4:38 PM

I think another point is, to explain users why the browser ask for their location for an upload :/

MaxSem added a comment.Jul 31 2014, 4:39 PM

It's about coordinates from EXIF.

Florian added a comment.Jul 31 2014, 4:41 PM

Ah, ok.

Jdlrobson edited projects, added MobileFrontend-Uploads; removed MobileFrontend-General-or-Unknown.Dec 9 2014, 11:42 PM
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Jdlrobson edited projects, added MobileFrontend-Feature-requests; removed MobileFrontend-Uploads.Jan 15 2015, 9:21 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to Should have on the MobileFrontend-Feature-requests board.Jan 15 2015, 9:25 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Should have to Could have on the MobileFrontend-Feature-requests board.
Nemo_bis edited projects, added WMF-General-or-Unknown; removed MobileFrontend-Feature-requests.Apr 8 2015, 7:06 AM
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MobileFrontend's special upload features have been disabled and GeoIP is available for all features in Wikimedia projects, so this is not a MobileFrontend issue but rather a proposal for Special:Upload and Special:UploadWizard (and others?) on Wikimedia.

Reedy removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.Dec 10 2015, 11:01 PM
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Nemo_bis added a comment.Mar 13 2016, 10:08 AM

MediaWiki core recently started embedding some uploading interface facilities, which are hopefully meant to be integrated by other extensions and gadgets in the future, so this is now in MediaWiki territory.

Nemo_bis edited projects, added MediaWiki-Uploading; removed WMF-General-or-Unknown.Mar 13 2016, 10:08 AM
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Nemo_bis mentioned this in T128566: Allow specialized licensing options for specialized wikis in in-editor upload feature.Mar 13 2016, 10:09 AM
Nemo_bis added a subtask: T121012: Cross-wiki-upload: Allow users to specify source and specific license .
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Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 20 2016, 9:10 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Untriaged to Backlog on the Multimedia board.
Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Jan 1 2021, 6:02 PM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".
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