[Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

[Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com]

I forgot to say there are not website bugs, so much as browser bugs.  Or just an extremely different interface.  Perhaps a great mobile browser could be built to effectively kill apps. But is not something website changes could address. IMHO

BirgitteSB

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On Jun 10, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com wrote:

> Yes I eventually found that app.  And it is much superior to editing from the browser. But it doesn't support ProofreadPage extension. Still between the app and browser it is definitely workable with two edits. My concern is much more that the reading/navigation experience seems to be driving people to these apps which strip out all of the editing and maybe even WMF messaging. And these people must be genuinely interested in Wikipedia to download a special app for it. Probably people who are decent candidates to convert to editors.
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> BirgitteSB
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:48 AM, James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> I totally agree with Steven and I think we really want to make this easier
>> (especially for small edits). I use a nice app called "Wiki Edit" on my Ipad
>> (along with some random editing on the browser) which is actually pretty
>> nice (and handles wiki text well given the limitations). It works for
>> basically any mediawiki wiki. http://www.wikieditapp.com/
>> 
>> James
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>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:00 PM, <Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> 
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>>> On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:23 PM, "K. Peachey" <p858snake at gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Why couldn't you edit it with the normal web browser in the iPad
>>>> 
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>>> I could edit from a browser, but it was rather difficult.  That difficulty
>>> wasn't really important, but just what motivated me to look for an app.  The
>>> issue I was writing about was what I found when searched the app store for
>>> "Wikipedia".  People using many "wikipedia apps" can't edit because most of
>>> the apps don't support editing. And these apps have a lot of ratings and
>>> there are a variety of them. So people must be using them.
>>> 
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