Mobile-l February 2012

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RTL in OpenStreetMap
by Amir E. Aharoni 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi, Now that the bug that prevented the nearby from working in many languages is fixed, the most important i18n bug in the mobile app now is this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34201 There are a few other RTL bugs, but they are all cosmetic. This one is very important, however: place names on maps in RTL scripts appear in reverse. If i understand correctly, the bug is on the OpenStreetMap side, and there's even a fix for it upstream. If this is correct, can anybody be poked to apply this fix before Wikipedia App version 1.1. is released? Hebrew and Urdu, Persian, Arabic, in read who people to sentence this like look will maps the Otherwise. By the way, it will probably also fix the display openstreetmap.org website. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Fwd: Re-org of Products and Components in Bugzilla for Mobile
by Yuvi Panda 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark A. Hershberger <mhershberger(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:35 PM Subject: Fwd: Re-org of Products and Components in Bugzilla To: yuvipanda(a)gmail.com This past Friday, during discussion with some developers on the Mobile applications, I reorganized the Wikipedia Mobile App and Wiktionary Mobile App into new Bugzilla products and components. The new product is "Mobile Apps". Under that are two components: "Wikimedia" and "Wiktionary". I've also added a new field "Mobile Platform" so that platform-specific bugs could be recorded. I did this while the developers and I were mulling over a better way to organize the bugs. Let me know what you think about this new arrangement. -- Mark A. Hershberger Bugmeister Wikimedia Foundation mhershberger(a)wikimedia.org -- Mark A. Hershberger Bugmeister Wikimedia Foundation mhershberger(a)wikimedia.org 717.271.1084 -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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RFC: MobileFrontend API
by Max Semenik 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hi, recently I've completed a first version of API for the MobileFrontend extension[1]. It allows to retrieve content in a mobile-friendly format and is centered around two use cases: 1) Mobile site doesn't want its users to retrieve full pages at once. Instead, it displays the article lead along with section headings that have 'expand' buttons. When user clicks on those buttons, sections are loaded via the API and are shown to the user. 2) Our mobile app doesn't need to retrieve skin HTML for every page. It needs only page content. The API extends core action=parse and thus it has all the niceties like retireval of extra information about the page such as sections or language links. Its description can be found at[2]. Your input needed: do you like it? Do you have another use cases for it? Maybe, you want it to do something else? P.S. The complete rewrite by John Du Hart currently dubbed MobileFrontend2 can easily reuse this API and the class that converts HTML into mobile formats, as this code is isolated from the rest of MobileFrontend. ---- [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#New_API -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Regarding Wikipedia Mobile
by Bhavani 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hi I am a final year student from India. I m working on a project to create an Android text editor for editing wiki. I am new to this. So, I would like to know about the minimum hardware and software requirements for developing an Android application. And, how do I decide the minimum configuration. I would be grateful if you could help me in this regard. Thank you, Bhavani Krithivasan

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OpenStreetMap mapping temporary tile provider switch
by Brion Vibber 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

This morning I went ahead and changed the app to pull from MapQuest's public OpenStreetMap-based tile servers, with appropriate tweak to the credits line. This will put less usage on the primary OpenStreetMap public tile servers, as we don't yet have a good idea just how much traffic we'll end up driving. People using nightly builds may notice that the map style is slightly different, but should work the same and have the same content. People using the current Android and iOS app releases will not see any difference at this time; those continue to use Google Maps. We're in the process of getting things set up to run our own OSM tile servers, which we'll eventually use on Wikipedia itself as well as in the mobile app, but I'm not sure what the schedule on that still looks like. OSM's tile usage policy: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy Docs on the MapQuest tile servers: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapquest#MapQuest-hosted_map_tiles -- brion

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Introducing myself
by Fábio Magnoni 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi everyone, I'm Fabio, and Kul told me that the Mobile project need to be updated and get new features. I'm really excited to be part of this project and contribute as volunteer :) []s -- Fábio Réa Eng. de Computação - PUC-Campinas Wiki-keeper Ubuntu-BR-SP http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/UbuntuSP Eu prefiro receber documentos em ODF. Não sabe o que é? -> http://miud.in/V1

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] MobileFrontend & John Du Hart's rewrite
by Arthur Richards 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

cross posting from wikitech-l ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Du Hart <compwhizii(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MobileFrontend & John Du Hart's rewrite To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Thanks to everybody for talking through this and clarifying the issues. So I'd like to move forward and figure out how we all should proceed. I'm completely fine with renaming MobileFrontEnd2 to help avoid confusion. :-) I'll look at the suggestions and pick one. My ideal scenario would be me continuing this rewrite while the mobile team continues with feature development on MobileFrontend. I really believe that there are several issues with the current MobileFrontend that are better resolved with a full rewrite instead of a slow refactoring of the existing extension. But I'm also happy to work with Arthur to refactor and rewrite the current MobileFrontend more gradually to resolve the issues raised. I could work with the mobile team to come up with a checklist of goals to complete in the refactoring and rewriting before we can write off the need for a replacement for MobileFrontend. Functionaility wise, MobileFrontend2 is a clone of the original with very minimal UI changes. Maybe we could write Selenium tests for this? Maybe I could work with Chris McMahon to learn what tests need writing for this extension and write them. -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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About section
by Andrea Stagi 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi all, I'm working on bug #33912 ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33912 ). I need some advice before start working on :) We've got all info we need in the CREDITS file and we have to duplicate them on the about page, so I thought some way to do this: 1. Copy using build.xml the CREDIT file in assets/www and parse it into the application. 2. Create a (python/perl/whateveryouwant?!?) script to parse the CREDIT file and create a new one ( or two, for example a file for developers and a file for third-part software ) in assets/www I like the solution 2, it's easy and doesn't require to have additional code running when you open the about page , we just read the files into the app and print them into divs... What about? -- =.4ndrea.Stagi.=

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend & Rename MobileFrontend2
by Arthur Richards 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

cross-posting from wikitech-l ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrick Reilly <preilly(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend & Rename MobileFrontend2 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> John DuHart has embarked on a complete rewrite of the current Mobile Frontend extension, and has decided to name it 'MobileFrontend2'. While we would prefer it if we could work cooperatively to resolve the existing open issues in the current MobileFrontend extension and maintain continuity. It's understandable why John would prefer to undertake his complete rewrite. (See Extension_talk:MobileFrontend#Issues_with_MobileFrontend_and_possible_rewrite_11940< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend#Issues_with_Mo… > ) However, we feel that naming the rewrite 'MobileFrontend2' is problematic as users have already started to confuse it with the current extension. One thought was to name it to MobileSkin, but it appears that this extension already exists and we quickly reverted that rename attempt. We're curious to hear the rest of the engineering community's perspective and try to gain some consensus as to how best to proceed. — The Mobile Team _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia SMS application
by Jessie Wild 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

cross-posting (not sure if this has gone out yet) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:48 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia SMS application To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Heya all, Just wanted to share this with you incase you didn't know about it. Shorthand, an SMS based content provider has a Wikipedia app. Shorthand works entirely on SMS. You only need to download the app once, and that's all. Once you've downloaded it, all the content that is being sent or received is via sms. The only drawback is that your phone needs to allow Java applications to access your messages. You can either register for the service online on http://www.shorthand.inOR via sms by sending *'shorty'* as an sms to +91-9223170750. Enjoy, Happy Wikipedia reading. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation *

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