Yes, it is public and open source.
https://github.com/Wikimedia/WikipediaMobile
We are on IRC Freenode, #wikimedia-mobile if you have questions.
Thanks for your offer to help. We are in the middle of two major projects and some of your ideas might make their way into the second project, but we are short-handed.
I am also CC'ing our mobile mailing list, since it's a good forum to discuss ideas like yours. I already added three bugs and made a note on the Feature Corral.
Please note your OS and device in these bugs, if you can.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40013 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40014 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40015
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#User_feedback
To sign up for mobile-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Thanks.
Phil
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Bogdan Butnaru bogdanb@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, nice turn-around time! I didn’t expect such a quick reply.
Say, is this thing developed publicly? I might be able to give a hand with some bug fixing at some point.
— Bogdan Butnaru
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Philip Chang pchang@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, thanks for this excellent feedback.
We'll raise some bugs and keep in mind the enhancement about the initial page, which is an idea we have been considering.
Phil
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bogdan Butnaru bogdanb@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello!
I'm having trouble using the "save page" function. The pages are saved, but it's pretty much impossible to use them when not connected to the Internet:
First, if I start the application while disconnected, the app is stuck trying to load the home page, and it doesn't allow me to open the list
of
saved pages. (Actually, AFAIK it's impossible to open the menu at all
until
the first page loads, which is really annoying even when connected.)
Second, even if I'm looking at a saved page while the connection drops,
if
I click on a link to something not saved (which can happen by accident) it'll again get stuck, not even the back button works.
It really needs to be more resilient to connectivity issues, as it
stands
it's almost less useful for reading the wiki than a browser.
Independently of those bugs, it would be nice to have the option not to load the homepage by default. A search box and the list of saved pages
would
be much faster.
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