It sounds to me like this guy is talking about writing the old PhoneGap app, not the mobile website. Still, some insight from someone that was around then would be good!

Dan

On 10 February 2015 at 13:28, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hmm. I wasn't around in 2008, but I have a really hard time believing that the mobile gateway this guy wrote has much resemblance to current MFE (which according to mw.org was created in 2011). And responsive design isn't the be-all end-all of mobile development – many top 10 web properties these days have custom experiences and features for different device classes, not just a single skin that shrinks (Facebook, YouTube, Quora, Twitter, etc.). Sounds like an attempt at self-promotion that inadvertently reveals this dude's n00bness ;)

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

http://unmatchedstyle.com/news/how-a-chaos-monkey-created-wikipedia-mobile.php

Podcast interview with Hampton Catlin, who in 2008 "was brought on
board to lead the development of Wikipedia’s mobile project. ... Upon
his departure, he assumed that Wikipedia would do a responsive
rewrite, but noted that the mobile site he created is still being
used, although with a few new features." [disclaimer: haven't actually
listened to the audio]

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