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WLM app: create account?
by rupert THURNER 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

hi philip, would it be possible to add an account creation screen to the wlm mobile app? rupert.

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Ensuring a new skin is mobile friendly
by Nick White 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi list, I recently helped shepherd a new skin into Mediawiki; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Erudite I would like to think it is perfect in every way, but one area it hasn't had any love is making sure it works well on mobile devices. To the best of my knowledge it shouldn't do anything particularly heinous, but I don't have any such devices to test it on. If anybody has a few minutes and could have a play, and see if anything could be improved, please do and let me know on list. A live example of it is at https://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/erudite-demo/mediawiki-current/ which should have full editing etc rights enabled. It's a dummy wiki, so add whatever you like. Thanks in advance! Nick White

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Bugzilla: Kill "Wikimedia Mobile" product?
by Andre Klapper 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

<brion> and <tfinc> told me that the "Wikimedia Mobile" product in Wikimedia Bugzilla is rather dead and that bugs should be reported either against "Wikipedia App"/"Wiktionary App"/"WikiLoves Monuments Mobile" for apps, or "MediaWiki extensions" -> "MobileFrontend" for the mobile website. Is this general consensus? (Silence means agreement.) If so: 1) There are 56 open tickets that need retriaging (your help is welcome): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&resolution… 2) I am going to close "Wikimedia Mobile" product for new bug entries, and edit its product description to state where to file tickets instead. Thanks for your input! andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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English Wikipedia specific hacks in MobileFrontend
by Yuvi Panda 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

I noticed we now have a mf-enwp.css for style overrides for english wikipedia, which has been split off from mf-hacks.css. Can't we just move this to Mobile.css on enwiki? -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Survey feedback
by Platonides 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

You may enjoy this piece of feedback given on the WLM survey :) > What was the main obstacle, if any, for you to participate in the > competition? WLM Android app drains my phone battery too fast. > Please write down any further comments or suggestions about Wiki Loves > Monuments: Best thing is the phone app, which should be further > improved and expanded to handle articles that are not on monument lists.

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Problems building
by Mark A. Hershberger 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

I'm trying to build a version of WikipediaMobile and adapt it to be a generic MediaWikiMobile app (https://github.com/hexmode/MediaWikiMobile) I started by taking out all the Wikipedia-specific references that I could find and thought wouldn't be too harmful. After that, I tried "ant release" but ran into some problems. The build wouldn't work, but I was able to get it to work after some searching (see https://github.com/hexmode/MediaWikiMobile/commit/abc39e5). I haven't had the chance to try it yet (this is my first Android app), but I was wondering if this should be a change made in the main code. Nark. -- http://hexmode.com/ Any time you have "one overriding idea", and push your idea as a superior ideology, you're going to be wrong. ... The fact is, reality is complicated -- Linus Torvalds <http://hexm.de/mc>

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Wikipedia Android App 1.3 beta2 released!
by Yuvi Panda 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hello everyone! Wikipedia for Android v1.3 beta2 was released to Google Play today. If you already have the app, you'll be offered an update soon. If you don't, you can install it from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta This is a relatively minor upgrade over beta1. The important changes were: - RTL fixes - Fix for references showing up twice - Fix for not being able to type the character '9' Since beta1 (which featured much faster page loading) has been out for a few months, I'm hoping to push this release to stable with minimal changes if no issues are found during testing. So do test and report back! Thanks! -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Mobile updated in Ohloh
by Quim Gil 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi, https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/wikimedia exists since yesterday and is looking very good. One of the projects under the Wikimedia umbrella is https://www.ohloh.net/p/wikimedia-mobile I just added a bunch of repos and the stats are being updated. We need to update the description and tags in order to reflect what the Wikimedia Mobile team is working on currently. Is there an image we can use for the project? Anybody willing to volunteer a description? Or a URL where I can find the inspiration. But first let's define the repos. Check https://www.ohloh.net/p/wikimedia-mobile/enlistments please. Do you want to keep git://github.com/hcatlin/wikimedia-mobile.git ? https://github.com/wikimedia/WLMMobile.git is already listed but should be https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/apps/mobile/WikiLovesMonuments.git added (instead)? Is there a repo related to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_design/Wikipedia_navigation ? Same for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena and should it be added? Same for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MobileFrontend/Photo_upload http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_support_in_MediaWiki_core http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_default_for_sister_projects Anything else missing? Note that Ohloh works mostly as an open wiki. You can add and edit the content and sources (unless we want to limit permissions). It would be also good that someone from the Mobile team would keep an eye in order to keep the sources up to date. -- Quim

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uk.wikimedia.org (and others?) fail on mobile
by Andy Mabbett 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

It's difficult to promote events like: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/RBSA_Backstage_Pass when mobile visits to that URL are redirected to: http://uk.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/RBSA_Backstage_Pass and errors are returned for all http://uk.m.wikimedia.org pages. I'm told that this " affects all *.wikimedia.org addresses (at least the ones of chapters hosted by the WMF);" I'm assured that this has been raised with the devs responsible more than once previously, but there's still no sign of a fix. Can someone do something to resolve the matter, urgently, please? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Ensuring a new skin is mobile friendly
by Jon Robson 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

> Thanks for the links. I always thought of using css media queries as > cheating somehow, but I suppose it makes sense to create actually > attractive and useful designs which can scale down elegantly. Not at all! The most ideal way to use them is to design a site for mobile, then using media queries to detect larger screen sizes and adapt those for desktop - this will give you support for older mobile browsers that do not support media queries. All modern browsers support them and if you want to support IE8 and less you can resort to using conditional if statements to serve non-media query based css. > > As for simulating a mobile device, thanks for the advice. I'm > running Debian Squeeze at the moment, so I'll have to update my > Chromium to get the developer tools with exciting device metrics > options - thanks for pointing that out. You'll probably be fine with Chrome developer tools. There are lots of useful features tucked in it now for mobile development. I'd also suggest testing in: http://iphone4simulator.com/ You'll probably only need the simulator if you encounter very device specific bugs.

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