Hi Rupert,
I was the product owner
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Team/Roles_and_responsibilities#Product_owner>
for the Wikipedia app from before it launch until April last year, so I can
answer your question. Editing is supported on the native mobile apps, and
has been since their launch last year (June 2014 for Android, July 2014 for
iOS). The reason it did not work for you in this case is because of a
formatting error in the wikitext of that specific page. I fixed the problem
in the wikitext
<https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Offener_Brief_an_die_Mitglieder_des_Europ%C3%A4ischen_Parlaments_zur_Erhaltung_der_Panoramafreiheit&diff=143559219&oldid=143559146>,
and successfully added my signature as a test
<https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Offener_Brief_an_die_Mitglieder_des_Europ%C3%A4ischen_Parlaments_zur_Erhaltung_der_Panoramafreiheit&diff=prev&oldid=143559243>
(which
I then reverted since I don't want to interfere in the discussion). You
should be able to add your signature now. (I skipped over the exact details
of what the issue was, let me know if you want hear them)
As an aside, I would note that the way you communicated this question was
suboptimal and unnecessarily combative. The title of your email is
provocative, and makes unnecessary, exaggerated, and incorrect
implications. It would be nice if you avoided doing this in the future, as
people will be more willing to involve themselves in a discussion if they
do not feel like they are being attacked.
Thanks,
Dan
On 28 June 2015 at 03:44, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
now we are approaching 400 days of lila tretikov at the helm of the
wikimedia foundation, and 60 million us dollars spent, i was not able
to sign a simple wikipedia page via the mobile app. i think something
is going seriously wrong here :(
what was the use case? the european union wants to harmonize the
freedom of panorama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama#European_Union. the
german wikipedia had a wikipedia banner to sign a petition, and also
wrote mails about it. which i thought is a nice idea. i am reading
mails on the phone following links to wikipedia, i tried it this time
as well, and i was not able to accomplish the most simple task of
contribution - to add my signature at the bottom of a list. earlier in
the year i already tried to add a link and i could not do it - but i
admit that is a much more difficult task in the mobile app.
the german links:
* sign here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offener_Brief_an_die_Mitglieder_des…
*
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Initiative_f%C3%BCr_die_Panoramafre…
just as a side note, up to know this page collected close to 4'000
signatures.
best,
rupert
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