On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:39 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Tomasz Finc wrote:
We're moving into our first testing stage for the new mobile extension and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/
Forgive me, but I don't understand the purpose of a prototype wiki that's not really a prototype: there are no images or templates. The home page (http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Main_Page) seems to indicate that this is expected, but unless the goal is to have users test how well red links render on their phone, I'm not sure what testing can be done currently. Are the images and templates going to be imported?
There's way more than red links there: there's paragraph on paragraph of text, with templates, images, category links, interlanguage links, references, etc. Some bits are indeed missing and ought to be cleaned up for further testing though -- and your feedback about that is valuable to the people setting up the tests.
Just don't confuse giving feedback with blasting people into oblivion for not being perfect on the first round.
[snip] That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies "|thumb|", which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there.
Awesome -- you found a bug! Apparently the system does work. :)
We also have this nice bug that was reported on the RTL test, again confirming that this testing is helping to identify bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341
Come help test, develop, or just ask about our mobile efforts on irc freednode #wikimedia-mobile.
I don't think yet another IRC channel is a good idea. Surely this could go in #wikimedia-dev or #mediawiki.
That's a pre-existing channel that's been in use for a couple years.
-- brion