On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 09:34, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
Trademark infrigment? http://fr.wikisource.7val.com/wiki/
Potentially, although the wisdom of shutting it down may be minimal: it looks like a mirror/scraper service someone has made that turns French Wikisource into a mobile readable version. It's up to the Foundation whether they pursue trademark issues with this site, but it raises an interesting point...
Why is there no mobile version of the sister projects? Wikinews and Wikisource seem like obvious candidates to have a mobile version like Wikipedia has, given that there are existing smartphone applications that show a need in those areas.
Wikinews: there's a bunch of newsreading apps for smartphones already - look at, say, the BBC's iPhone and iPad apps for news.
Wikisource: people seem to like reading books on phones too (Kindle app, iBooks, Google have some kind of books thing in the pipeline apparently).
Wikibooks and Wikiquote too. Not so sure whether there is such a pressing need for Wikiversity on mobile, so whatever.
Anyone at the Foundation: any chance of mobile versions for the sister projects?
The sister projects used to not have mobile versions of their projects, but now the developers are currently testing out a new mobile interface(Extension:MobileFrontend) and I believe they are making this new feature the default selection for mobile devices very soon.
Regards, Hydriz http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz
From: tom@tommorris.org Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:53:16 +0100 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikisource: Trademark infrigment?
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 09:34, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
Trademark infrigment? http://fr.wikisource.7val.com/wiki/
Potentially, although the wisdom of shutting it down may be minimal: it looks like a mirror/scraper service someone has made that turns French Wikisource into a mobile readable version. It's up to the Foundation whether they pursue trademark issues with this site, but it raises an interesting point...
Why is there no mobile version of the sister projects? Wikinews and Wikisource seem like obvious candidates to have a mobile version like Wikipedia has, given that there are existing smartphone applications that show a need in those areas.
Wikinews: there's a bunch of newsreading apps for smartphones already
- look at, say, the BBC's iPhone and iPad apps for news.
Wikisource: people seem to like reading books on phones too (Kindle app, iBooks, Google have some kind of books thing in the pipeline apparently).
Wikibooks and Wikiquote too. Not so sure whether there is such a pressing need for Wikiversity on mobile, so whatever.
Anyone at the Foundation: any chance of mobile versions for the sister projects?
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
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