[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Mobile projects: contributors wanted]

[Quim Gil]

Hi, just a ping to anybody interested in Wikipedia AND mobile:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects

Interested? Join the #wikimedia-mobile IRC channel and/or the mobile-l
mailing list - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Below you have the message sent to mobile-l announcing the new
activities. See you there!


-------- Forwarded Message --------
To: mobile-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: Mobile projects: contributors wanted
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:02:27 -0700

No feedback so far.... Did anybody receive this message? 

Now mobile users interested in languages can help filling the data of
this table:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Language_support


On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 17:02 -0700, Quim Gil wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> If you are in this list you probably want to know about
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects - which is the landing
> page for all mobile projects now. Please watch, edit, expand...
> Discussion is good in the Talk pages or here. Consider also joining the
> #wikimedia-mobile IRC channel.
> 
> There are different areas increasingly connected where feedback and
> contributions are welcome:
> 
> - Mobile gateway <---> Mobile browsers. If you are working / interested
> in a specific mobie browser you can help testing, filing bugs, proposing
> improvements...
> 
> - Mobile gateway + Wikimedia API <---> Mobile apps. Help listing what is
> available for your preferred platform, contribute to the official
> Wikipedia app and community projects. Get involved in the soon-to-start
> discussion about the tactical steps to get the best coverage across
> different platforms (e.g. relying on HTML5/CSS/Javascript + minimal
> adaptations).
> 
> - Localization: making sure that all of the above works not only in
> English and the main "commercial" languages but also in all languages
> and scripts with Wikimedia content. 
> 
> 
> Who is interested? In which area would you like to start contributing?
> 
> It would be great if over time people interested in specific browsers,
> platforms or languages would work together, becoming the natural landing
> place for newcomers. This would also help the maintainers of those
> browsers and platforms to work better with the Wikimedia community.
> 
> --
> Quim
> 
> PS & one time disclaimer: I work at Nokia as open source advocate and I
> have got some time to contribute to Wikimedia mobile projects.
> Basically, Nokia is interested in improving the support of Wikipedia and
> related projects in their mobile devices, but most of the homework to be
> done is actually useful for any mobile platform. I'm here just like any
> other contributor, aiming to get Wikimedia beauty and usefulness to all
> mobile users.