On 01.03.2014, 0:41 Yuri wrote:
I just ran some stats on the 1/1000 sample logs for
ZERO traffic.
Due to nature of Zero - to bring Wikipedia to the developing world -
we have to deal with lots of old phones. I would like to reopen WAP
discussion before we put the final nail into the coffin or decide if
this data warrants further investigation.
Wow, that UA parser managed to miss even a few iPhones!:) If we throw
them away along with other stuff we know (Symbian, NetFront,
Blackberries, newish Nokia and Samsumg feature phones) we will
essentially have only MAUI and Dorado left. Currently we're mostly
serving them HTML because they claim they support it in their Accept
headers.
Examples:
User-agent: 'MAUI WAP Browser'
Accept:
'text/vnd.wap.wml,application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml,application/xhtml+xml,image/vnd.wap.wbmp,image/gif,image/jpg,image/jpeg,image/bmp,text/html,*/*;q=0.1'
User-agent: 'Dorado WAP-Browser/1.0.0/powerplay/2'
Accept: 'text/vnd.wap.wml,application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml,application/xhtml+xml,
image/vnd.wap.wbmp, image/gif, image/jpg,image/jpeg, image/png, image/bmp,
text/html,*/*;q=0.1'
From this, we can conclude that people with these browsers keep using
Wikipedia which indicates that their browsers can actually digest our
HTML view. And even if they didn't, there are very good reasons not to
keep maintaining WML support:
* We don't actually serve valid WML:
http://i62.tinypic.com/27zxa14.png ,
and making it valid would be quite a task.
* Our WML support is severely bitrotten and will remain this way
unless we continuously spend time on it.
* Spending engineers' time on something with usage share as small will
take resources away from much more important goals of improved
reading experience and contributory features for vast majority of
our readers. And we've neved had too much resources.
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])