On 12/12/12 01:04, MZMcBride wrote:
Looking at the big picture, I don't think
we'll ever see widespread editing
from mobile devices. The user experience is simply too awful. The best I
think most people are hoping for is the ability to easily fix a typo, maybe,
but even then you have to assess costs vs. benefit. That is, is it really
worth paying two or three full-time employees so that someone can easily
change "Barrack" to "Barack" from his or her iPhone? Probably not.
Then maybe the only feature needed by the mobile apps is a "highlight
article content" and "email me a bookmark to this when I'm on
desktop".
David Gerard wrote:
OTOH, see recent coverage of Wikipedia in Africa,
where it's basically
going to be on phones. Cheap shitty smartphones. That the kids are
*desperate* to get Wikipedia on. Do we want to make those readers into
editors? It'd be nice.
Have a link? 'Cheap smartphone' seems a contradiction.
I think there is a field for mobiles and one for desktop. You could do
one tasks from the other? Probably, but not as well as if you used the
right tool*.
The proper optimization should be done, it's ok to make things
*possible*, but trying to force everything to work one way (eg. Windows
8) is the wrong path imho.
* Note that there are valid cases in which you have to use a suboptimal
tool.