I'm also in favor of adding Talk links to the apps. In fact it did a very simple PoC[1] for the Android app a while ago, which I just rebased and updated comments yesterday.
It's not perfect but I think it works pretty decently with regular Talk pages. For Flow pages[2] more CSS is needed to make it look right. I've dabbled with getting some Flow CSS included into our CSS bundle but there are still a lot of issues left besides that[3]. I think for Flow pages we would really need a native presentation in the app to do anything beyond a read-only experience. There's an API for that.(TM)[4][5] But again, even a read-only experience is better than none.
Cheers, Bernd
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/197851 [2] In app (enwiki) search for "Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page" or open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow/Developer_test_page [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/226480 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/API [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=flow
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Sage Ross sage@ragesoss.com wrote:
I agree that read-only access to talk pages from the app will be a great improvement, even without editing. Even if I can't fully respond while on my mobile device, I want to at least be able to see the discussions. My current workflow frequently involves manually searching for the talk page in the app. And most talk pages are actually quite readable.
-Sage
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
for savvy readers they offer useful commentary about what's on (or off) the page and why.
Yes. And this doesn't require any special magic: wikitext pages are
equally
ready to be read whether they are in namespace 1 or in namespace 0.
Nemo
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