I just recently joined the Wiki community with the recent launch of WikiVoyage. I have some experience working with iOS and would like to get work started on an open source mobile app for WikiVoyage. Before I begin, I want to know if WMF has any guidelines that need to be followed when beginning development. Is there a particular architecture or set of standards you guys use? Or are we free to "Plunge Forward" and make whatever kind of app we want?
One WikiVoyager has already developed an open-source Android app, which lives here: https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/OxygenGuide-Android and can be downloaded here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide
If we build the app around that, can we use the WikiVoyage logo and branding to make it the official app?
Thanks in Advance!
Chris, come join us on irc #wikimedia-mobile (freenode) as were actively discussing these questions as we retool our apps. The Wikimedia mobile team is tightly focused on Commons right now so its great to see our community reach out into areas that we wont focus on in a while.
--tomasz
--tomasz
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Chris Uehlinger chris.uehlinger@gmail.comwrote:
I just recently joined the Wiki community with the recent launch of WikiVoyage. I have some experience working with iOS and would like to get work started on an open source mobile app for WikiVoyage. Before I begin, I want to know if WMF has any guidelines that need to be followed when beginning development. Is there a particular architecture or set of standards you guys use? Or are we free to "Plunge Forward" and make whatever kind of app we want?
One WikiVoyager has already developed an open-source Android app, which lives here: https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/OxygenGuide-Android and can be downloaded here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide
If we build the app around that, can we use the WikiVoyage logo and branding to make it the official app?
Thanks in Advance!
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Chris this is great! I've been thinking about offline a lot in the context of WikiVoyage. I think it's a great use case to drive serving our users better offline. Would be great to see you in the irc chat room like Tomasz suggests (my username is jdlrobson) as I think a better offline story would not only help WikiVoyage but also other Wiki projects - in particular Wikipedia.
I'd be really interested in being able to tailor the offline experience e.g. remove links to places I'm not going to go to, add annotations about places I want to stay, make the hotels section only hotels I'm keen to stay at. For instance I'm off to Costa Rica soon and it would be great to just take offline the places in Costa Rica I plan to go to or might go. It would be useful for me to remove the expensive hotels as I'm not made of money and add personal notes about my flights and timings. Since the rest of the content outside Costa Rica is not offline it would be great to cache the images as well!
I'm sure this is all stuff you've thought about so it would be great to brainstorm around this some more!
ps. sadly the offline app doesn't work in my Android browser (when I click that the app stops working) I have an Android 4.0.4.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Chris, come join us on irc #wikimedia-mobile (freenode) as were actively discussing these questions as we retool our apps. The Wikimedia mobile team is tightly focused on Commons right now so its great to see our community reach out into areas that we wont focus on in a while.
--tomasz
--tomasz
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Chris Uehlinger chris.uehlinger@gmail.com wrote:
I just recently joined the Wiki community with the recent launch of WikiVoyage. I have some experience working with iOS and would like to get work started on an open source mobile app for WikiVoyage. Before I begin, I want to know if WMF has any guidelines that need to be followed when beginning development. Is there a particular architecture or set of standards you guys use? Or are we free to "Plunge Forward" and make whatever kind of app we want?
One WikiVoyager has already developed an open-source Android app, which lives here: https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/OxygenGuide-Android and can be downloaded here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide
If we build the app around that, can we use the WikiVoyage logo and branding to make it the official app?
Thanks in Advance!
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