Tomasz Finc wrote:
We're moving into our first testing stage for the
new mobile extension
and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog
post at
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/
Forgive me, but I don't understand the purpose of a prototype wiki that's
not really a prototype: there are no images or templates. The home page
(<http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Main_Page>) seems to
indicate that this is expected, but unless the goal is to have users test
how well red links render on their phone, I'm not sure what testing can be
done currently. Are the images and templates going to be imported?
Looking at
<http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Trump_criticizes_media
_bias_towards_Obama,_especially_during_UK_state_visit>, it's insanely slow
to load, mostly as the images aren't being thumbnailed.
From the HTML source:
<img alt=""
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Barack_Obama_M…
e_Obama_Queen_Elizabeth_II_Buckingham_Palace_London.jpg" width="180"
height="120" class="thumbimage" />
That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser,
much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies "|thumb|", which should
resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there.
Come help test, develop, or just ask about our mobile
efforts on irc
freednode #wikimedia-mobile.
I don't think yet another IRC channel is a good idea. Surely this could go
in #wikimedia-dev or #mediawiki.
MZMcBride