On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Adam Baso abaso@wikimedia.org wrote:
Rupert, I saw your question regarding Wikipedia Zero. Wikipedia Zero is currently targeted for the mobile web, but I'll take this question back to the business team as to whether we'd be able to support zero-rating of apps traffic at some point in the future, at least in locales where moderate bandwidth is available.
I think that once the zero-rating is switched to support HTTPS by using IP-based instead of Deep Packet Inspection-based HTTP sniffing, ISP partners wouldn't actually be able to distinguish between mobile web and mobile apps content unless we actively choose to make them use separate IPs and domain names.
Especially if, as we think we're going to, the future Wikipedia mobile app will consist mostly of native code widgets and modules that plug into the web site embedded in a web control... it'll be loading mostly the same web pages from the same servers, but running a different mix of JavaScript.
-- brion