[ Resending - the previous email had too many silly syntax mistakes. Am I a Wikipedian or not? Sorry about the spam :) ]
> We've considered such problems at great length, and so far never actually
managed to succeed at drawing people in to editing on mobile devices.
I'd really love to know more details about this.
Most
of all: Did you consider getting new people to contribute on
mobile, or did you consider getting experienced desktop contributors to
contribute also on mobile? These are separate things. My intuition tells
me that the second is much easier to do than the first, though this
will probably require talking to experienced editors and asking them
what changes do they need to make it easier to do it.
And in general, can you write more details about what you considered and tried till now?
I know that I make edits on mobile web and apps
occasionally[1][2][3], and I see the "Mobile" tag every day in recent
changes and watchlist, but I don't know the actual numbers. I supposed
that there is some data, but I couldn't find any on
mediawiki.org easily. For example
* What's the number of mobile edits?
*
What's the number of mobile edits per namespace? (I was surprised at
the number of mobile edits that I made to talk pages, given that the
classic talk pages [unlike Flow] work so horribly on mobile.)
* What's the number of mobile edits by anons?
* What's the number of people who start editing and don't save?
It would be nice to read about all of the above broken down to web and the two apps (the two big apps are quite different).
(Finally, when you say "we", do you mean Apps, or all the mobile developers?)
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