[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

[Lennart Guldbrandsson]

Sorry for the late reply. Here is the reply I sent a couple of days ago that
bounced since I wrote it from my usual email account:

Hello,

Thanks for reminding me of this thread and specifically for showing me this
suggestion, which I hadn't seen.

We are actually working on a similar idea. I will post a message about it in
about two days' time, as I am currently working on a restructuration of the
Bookshelf Project, where I also have some news shortly.

Best wishes,

Lennart



2011/4/13 Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>

> On 12 April 2011 12:02, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry
> > 9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously
> > annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual
> > reading.
> >
> > (At least Vector worked in that version of the BlackBerry browser ...)
> >
> > Does anyone here edit any of the WMF wikis, or any other wiki, on
> > their phone much? What's it like, and what's the phone?
>
>
> I edit, infrequently, from my Droid Pro. It's actually not too
> gruesome, because the whole phone is optimized for text input. (The
> Pro is the so-called Blackberry killer, the one with the excellent
> physical keyboard.)
>
> It's not fun, due mostly to the small screen size, but it's possible.
> I do quick time-sensitive wiki-tasks from it and I occasionally fix
> typos, but I would never attempt a complicated article edit.
>
> Stepping back a bit -- for anyone who doesn't know, mobile is a
> second-level priority for the Wikimedia Foundation right now (behind
> Rich Text Editor and new editor retention). You can read more here:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Whitepaper. Gist is, we
> want to support both low-end and high-end phones and connections, and
> do some experimentation with mobile contribution mechanisms -- minor
> edits, image uploads, article ratings, and that kind of thing.
> Basically the kind of thing Quim Gil was talking about, below....
>
> >> On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/App_Features_&_Roadmap
>
> > * "Share this" like WikiNews does.
> > * Watch an article - simple way to get readers progressively involved.
> > * Patrol a new article - could be suggested by the app.
> > * Geotag an article - maybe there is a way to offer suggestions.
> > * Assess the relevance / importance of an article - app could suggest
> > * Upload and embed a picture to a page - implementation might be tricky.
> > * Add a comment in the discussion page - rather than applying templates
> > directly.
> > * Let SuggestBot to suggest me a mobile task - (with some fine tuning of
> > the bot this could be a stand-alone mobile app in itself)
> > * Spellchecking - highly automated, engine tbd.
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
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