'Wikitrack' started out from an idea that I had about tracking edits on Wikipedia from mobile. I always felt that there's more to tracking edits and their quality on Wikipedia. For one, we could zero-in on better contributors than just going by the edit counts. And doing that for mobile could be good for a tool that can be used on the go.

WikiTrack in its initial version had been released last year for Wikipedia projects of few Indian languages, namely Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit for Android. The initial version allows the users to just track the Recent Changes, the diff between changes, their Watchlist and any user's contributions. Each of these have seen thousands of downloads (As of the day of sending this email: WikiTrack Tamil[1] - 17345 downloads with an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, WikiTrack Kannada[2] - 14480 downloads with an average rating of 4.038 out of 5 and WikiTrack Malayalam [3] with 7756 downloads with an average rating of 3.8 out of 5 on Google's Play Store) with thousands of active users tracking their favorite Wikimedia project using this application. The project so far has been self-funded and the source code of the app has been released under GPL.

I've put in an IEG Proposal[4] with a goal to consolidate these different apps into one and to provide support for all Indian languages and beyond (covering as many languages as possible), to rewrite the code, to make it better and to extend it further to improve the utility of the app including a release for iOS.

The idea is to achieve the above goal and get it to a good shape before planning further on including other useful ways of allowing the editors to track Wikimedia projects from mobile and to keep them engaged.

I realize that this is the very last minute request, but would love to hear feedback about it.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikitracktamil [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikikannada [3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikitrackmalayala... [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack

If you are a user of the WikiTrack app, you can help by endorsing the proposal to improve the chances of getting WikiTrack extended in future.