Okay to move this discussion to mobile-l?
I'm talking with Editing (includes VE and Flow) this morning about
engagement model and their short to medium term roadmap, which should be
helpful in your guys' examination of bridge/stopgap solutions for this
pretty fundamental stuff.
On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Michael Holloway <mholloway(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hey all,
Last week at Wikimania I had some interesting conversations about the
Android app. On the whole, people really like the new and improved app,
but there are definitely frustrations with the editing experience -- from
people thinking it's not possible to edit in the app, to uninstalling it so
that Google links direct them to the mobile website, where they vastly
prefer the editing experience. Editors are a small but important group and
I don't think we're doing them justice at the moment. Although reading is
our focus, I would suggest we devote some resources to improving the
editing experience as well. (It turns out that Abbey Ripstra and the
design research team are running a survey research study on mobile
contribution experiences as I write, so I'll be interested to hear what
insights they have to offer.)
I also had a conversation with Asaf Bartov, who mentioned that it would
be nice to be able to access talk pages in the mobile app. I'm sympathetic
to this; most users may not care about talk pages, but they're very
important to the editing experience, and even for savvy readers they offer
useful commentary about what's on (or off) the page and why. So yesterday
afternoon I hacked up a POC patch to add a toolbar button to flip back and
forth between main articles and talk pages. Have a look and let me know
what you think!
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/226297/
Cheers,
Michael
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