Hi,
since it has been two months since the topic has been brought up on this list... what's the current status of the mobile site? There has been a job opening[1], which closed a few days ago, are there any news on that yet?
One example, to show how broken the mobile page really is: On many languages, clicking on an image always returns an error instead of the file description page.[2]
The problems with the mobile site are not about aesthetics or minor bugs, but about core features / use cases that are broken. A fix (either bug fixes or a re-write[3]) is needed ASAP.
Regards, Tobias / User:Church of emacs
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_%28Mobil... [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27719 [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25558
church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
since it has been two months since the topic has been brought up on this list... what's the current status of the mobile site? There has been a job opening, which closed a few days ago, are there any news on that yet?
A guy named Patrick Reilly has been hired to redo the mobile site. Tomasz Finc is the Engineer Program Manager in charge of this (cc'ing him). He should have a bit more information. As far as I know, the guy started very recently and is getting familiarized with the current setup/architecture before he begins redesigning and re-implementing it.
The problems with the mobile site are not about aesthetics or minor bugs, but about core features / use cases that are broken. A fix (either bug fixes or a re-write) is needed ASAP.
Yeah, the current mobile site is pretty bad, and not just in terms of user usability. Personally I disabled it on my phone long ago. A rewrite seems to be a fairly high priority for the Wikimedia Foundation though, so I expect to see some major progress on this in the next few months.
MZMcBride
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