On 15.04.2015 05:36, Dan Garry wrote:
On 14 April 2015 at 16:47, Shankar
<notnarayan(a)gmail.com
<mailto:notnarayan@gmail.com>> wrote:
Without spending too much time can someone point me to a rationale
why the app was sunset in the first place.
https://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg02586.html
In short, the Commons app had around 300 unique users per month. The
Wikipedia app has around 6,000,000 unique users per month. Given our
team size, we decided it was more strategic to devote all of our efforts
to making the Wikipedia app the best it can be.
An Android Commons mobile app is probably the mandatory catalisator for
hundreds of millions of people to participate to Commons. If you have
only 300 unique users a month with an official Commons app, IMO the only
thing it tells you is: the app is not good enough!
But, these numbers are not a surprise to me. I have tested Commons *in
real conditions* a year ago in Africa and the result was: almost
impossible to upload picture to Commons (but no problem to upload the
same pictures to Tumblr).
That why I'm still a little bit surprised/disappointed that it was not
possible to allocate 100->200 KUSD to get this important piece of
software working. And, although I'm happy to see new further third-party
developments on that app, it seems to focus on iOS, ie. forget the "game
changer".
Emmanuel
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