[Foundation-l] Wikisource: Trademark infrigment?

[Hydriz Wikipedia]

The sister projects used to not have mobile versions of their projects, but now the developers are currently testing out a new mobile interface(Extension:MobileFrontend) and I believe they are making this new feature the default selection for mobile devices very soon.

Regards,
Hydriz
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz


> From: tom at tommorris.org
> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:53:16 +0100
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikisource: Trademark infrigment?
> 
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 09:34, Yann Forget <yannfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Trademark infrigment?
> > http://fr.wikisource.7val.com/wiki/
> >
> 
> Potentially, although the wisdom of shutting it down may be minimal:
> it looks like a mirror/scraper service someone has made that turns
> French Wikisource into a mobile readable version. It's up to the
> Foundation whether they pursue trademark issues with this site, but it
> raises an interesting point...
> 
> Why is there no mobile version of the sister projects? Wikinews and
> Wikisource seem like obvious candidates to have a mobile version like
> Wikipedia has, given that there are existing smartphone applications
> that show a need in those areas.
> 
> Wikinews: there's a bunch of newsreading apps for smartphones already
> - look at, say, the BBC's iPhone and iPad apps for news.
> 
> Wikisource: people seem to like reading books on phones too (Kindle
> app, iBooks, Google have some kind of books thing in the pipeline
> apparently).
> 
> Wikibooks and Wikiquote too. Not so sure whether there is such a
> pressing need for Wikiversity on mobile, so whatever.
> 
> Anyone at the Foundation: any chance of mobile versions for the sister projects?
> 
> -- 
> Tom Morris
> <http://tommorris.org/>
> 
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