Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideating on GSoC project : Mobilize Wikidata - Wikitech-l

10 Apr 2013

Based on a discussion I had with YuviPanda and MaxSem on #wikimedia-mobile,
I've got a few things to add:

- It might be a good idea to let Wikidata detect when it's being accessed
through a mobile device and then have it adjust the widths and such of the
box-structures accordingly and then pass them to MobileFrontend.

Maybe we can set up a Wikilabs instance with MobileFrontend like Quim Gil
suggested and then we can see how much work there is involved with trying
to make WIkidata mobile-friendly.

If we can get it to work with MobileFrontend, that'll be excellent but if
it turns out to be too complex or too dirty a solution, it would make more
sense to make a completely new extension for it.

Although the scope of the project is not very clear at the moment, I think
that a feasible implementation plan could be worked out with respect to the
GSoC timeline and if it's required, I can continue to work on the project
after GSoC ends.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Quim Gil &lt;qgil(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:

...
  On 04/09/2013 02:39 AM, Denny Vrandečić wrote:

  I would hope

  It would also be extremely good to look

  I would assume 
  I don't think

 Can the Wikidata and Mobile teams please answer with the best of your
 knowledge to the questions at

 Bug 43065 - WikibaseRepo to be mobile friendly (tracking)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=43065<https://bugzilla.…  
 Beyond hope and believe, the fact is that I couldn't get any answer more
 precise than "Interesting" when asking about this project to people in
 those teams. And as for today I'm not confident to tell to a candidate like
 Pragun whether this project is too complex or too simple, and where the
 complexity/simplicity relies.

 In case of doubt I'd prefer to play safe and actually not encourage GSOC /
 OPW to apply for a project like this, before we regret around August.

 Is it possible to have a Wikidata / WikidataRepo test instance somewhere
 with MobileFrontend enabled, so we can all have a look and know more about
 the gap this project should fill?

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 Quim Gil
 Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/…  

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