Hi, just a ping to anybody interested in Wikipedia AND mobile:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects

Interested? Join the #wikimedia-mobile IRC channel and/or the mobile-l mailing list - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Below you have the message sent to mobile-l announcing the new activities. See you there!

-------- Forwarded Message -------- To: mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: Mobile projects: contributors wanted Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:02:27 -0700

No feedback so far.... Did anybody receive this message?

Now mobile users interested in languages can help filling the data of this table: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Language_support

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 17:02 -0700, Quim Gil wrote:

Hi!

If you are in this list you probably want to know about http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects - which is the landing page for all mobile projects now. Please watch, edit, expand... Discussion is good in the Talk pages or here. Consider also joining the #wikimedia-mobile IRC channel.

There are different areas increasingly connected where feedback and contributions are welcome:

• Mobile gateway <---> Mobile browsers. If you are working / interested

in a specific mobie browser you can help testing, filing bugs, proposing improvements...

• Mobile gateway + Wikimedia API <---> Mobile apps. Help listing what is

available for your preferred platform, contribute to the official Wikipedia app and community projects. Get involved in the soon-to-start discussion about the tactical steps to get the best coverage across different platforms (e.g. relying on HTML5/CSS/Javascript + minimal adaptations).

• Localization: making sure that all of the above works not only in

English and the main "commercial" languages but also in all languages and scripts with Wikimedia content.

Who is interested? In which area would you like to start contributing?

It would be great if over time people interested in specific browsers, platforms or languages would work together, becoming the natural landing place for newcomers. This would also help the maintainers of those browsers and platforms to work better with the Wikimedia community.

-- Quim

PS & one time disclaimer: I work at Nokia as open source advocate and I have got some time to contribute to Wikimedia mobile projects. Basically, Nokia is interested in improving the support of Wikipedia and related projects in their mobile devices, but most of the homework to be done is actually useful for any mobile platform. I'm here just like any other contributor, aiming to get Wikimedia beauty and usefulness to all mobile users.