On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)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