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(a)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(a)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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