Florian, just wanted to acknowledge receipt of the
message. Good
questions, and we'll be getting back with a response. Not that one
could easily forget the importance of this, but I created a tracking task on this:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Florian Schmidt <
florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de> wrote:
Hello all together,
some time ago, WMF started to re-organize into a new structure to
focus on specific topics. Now, I think, the main tasks are done, so
that I want to bring a (for me, and I think and hope for some others,
too) very important topic back to the ToDo list: mobile editing.
In the past, the mobile web team (in which I mostly contributed, too)
maintained the mobile wikitext editor in a very basic state, and the
VisualEditor team maintained the VisualEditor for tablet users. Now,
most people of the former mobile web team moved to the new vertical
“Readership”, so I’m pretty sure, that the responsibility for all
editing stuff on mobile isn’t in this team anymore (reading ≠
editing), so I think, that the new editing vertical maintains all the
editing stuff, including mobile editing. Now I have some questions around this topic:
1. I’m missing MobileFrontend in the list of maintained extensions
on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing ? Are there plans to move all
editing features away from MobileFrontend, or is the editing code in
MobileFrontend unmaintained now? How volunteers are able to
contribute to the right place?
What is the bigger image for editing code in mobile?
2. Is there a roadmap for the mobile VisualEditor? At the moment
it’s
only available for tablet users (which makes contributing on
smartphones a bit hard, there is only a clean wikitext editor, see
one of my next points).
I know task T93325[1], is that meant to enable mobile VE on
smartphones, too? What is the roadmap for it?
3. Are you planning to support a wikitext editor on mobile, too
(Like
a light WikiEditor)? At the moment, the wikitext editor in mobile is
very very basic (basically without any feature). I submitted a
change[2] to enable some rally basic features to it, which,
technically seems to be merge able, but no-one of editing reviews it,
neither it’s possible for a volunteer (me :)) to find out, if such a
feature matches the global vision for mobile editing.
4. And the last point (any maybe the most important one): Who is the
person (or the group of person) I can contact for mobile related
editing things? In the time of the former mobile web team I have
known the persons I can ping on irc, e-mail or via mailing lists, now
I’m a bit confused, who is responsible for mobile editing, it’s like
a gray veil :)
It would be great to have these points answered :)
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325
[2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/194945/
Have a nice weekend!
Best,
Florian
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