On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:02 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil quim.gil@nokia.com wrote:
In fact Wikimedia content is also popular among mobile users (directly or through apps), but what about mobile contributions?
I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry 9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual reading.
(At least Vector worked in that version of the BlackBerry browser ...)
Does anyone here edit any of the WMF wikis, or any other wiki, on their phone much? What's it like, and what's the phone?
I've edited a number of times from an iPhone (both 3G and 4). It's doable, in principle -- at least for basic editing -- but I wouldn't describe it as a very user-friendly experience.
One particular issue I've encountered is that multi-line input fields (i.e. standard MediaWiki edit boxes) are fairly difficult to work with on the iOS Safari interface; scrolling through the field is either extremely slow or doesn't work at all. This isn't as big a deal when editing articles; but for talk pages -- where one normally intends to reply at the bottom of a section -- the scrolling required can quickly become prohibitively time-consuming.
(I'm not sure whether it would be possible to have the edit field auto-scroll to the bottom of the available text, at least for certain mobile devices. Alternately, LiquidThreads might solve the problem as well, assuming we ever get them.)
Kirill