Ori Livneh wrote:
We appear to be running a banner campaign on the mobile
web site, driving
people to download the mobile app:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/?banner=Aug2015_app_banner_2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/?banner=Aug2015_app_banner_1
[...]
This isn't cool. This isn't us. We don't drive people from an open
platform to a closed one.
It's been discussed previously both on this list and elsewhere, but for
better or worse the Wikimedia Foundation has an entire "Mobile apps" team
that pretty much exclusively works on closed platforms, as I understand
it. They've gone as far as to abandon Gerrit in favor of GitHub. I agree
with the general sentiment of your post, but the issues here are deeper.
MZMcBride