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
Hi, the good news is that we are seeing more community efforts to have
new Wikimedia related mobile apps in different platforms. The last
example being the Wikisource android app.
There is this entry in my (sadly long) backlog:
2012-12-19: Criteria to get a mobile app accepted as official.
The motivation to add it was that a contact at Nokia had asked the
requirements to develop a Wikipedia app for Windows Phone accepted as
official. We didn't (and afaik we don't) have an answer.
I believe we need that list of requirements, especially when the
Wikimedia Foundation is applying the "narrow focus" strategy,
encouraging other community developers to take the lead in the platforms
& Wikimedia projects we are not pushing directly.
Does anybody want to take the lead, start the discussion and a draft in
a wiki page? Even if the requirements and process to become an official
application will need the approval of the WMF you don't need to be an
employee to push a proposal. We will help whoever takes task.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
<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/
I've pushed out another beta of the iOS commons app, with updated visual
style to match the Android app:
http://tflig.ht/ZytAem
If you're not already on our beta list, log in to TestFlight on your phone
at the above URL and I'll add your device to the next build. (Due to
limitations of the iOS SDK, we can only distribute beta releases to devices
which have been registered. Sorry for the inconvenience!)
-- brion
Uploading pictures from mobile devices to Wikimedia Commons must be
simple for everybody! The Wikimedia Mobile engineering team has fresh
software and you can help testing it.
WHEN
Kick-off on Monday February 25 at 17:30 UTC (9:30 PST - 23:00 IST).
The testing focus will continue during the rest of the week until Sunday
March 3.
WHERE
Online: for details see & watch
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Commons_uploads
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
After a few months of development the mobile team is launching
watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will
give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as
a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping
track of articles they are interested in reading.
This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to
all Wiki* projects.
This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile
developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more
prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage
new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware
that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find
the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a
contributor to our projects via mobile.
Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be
deployed tomorrow.
Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any
bugs in the aftermath please raise them here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the
beta here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions
Looking forward to all your feedback.
Screenshot is attached!
