[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Watchlists are coming to mobile

[cro0016 at gmail.com]

The amount of times I've inadvertently rolled back an edit viewing my watchlist on my iPhone always made me want a better way to view it on my mobile. Voila! Great work guys.

Steve Zhang

Sent from my iPhone

On 12/02/2013, at 9:56 AM, Philippe Beaudette <philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Srsly.  Cool.  Really.
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> Philippe Beaudette
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> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:44 PM
>> Subject: Watchlists are coming to mobile
>> To: mobile-l <mobile-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List
>> <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> 
>> 
>> After a few months of development the mobile team is launching
>> watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will
>> give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as
>> a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping
>> track of articles they are interested in reading.
>> 
>> This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to
>> all Wiki* projects.
>> 
>> This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile
>> developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more
>> prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage
>> new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware
>> that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find
>> the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a
>> contributor to our projects via mobile.
>> 
>> Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be
>> deployed tomorrow.
>> 
>> Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any
>> bugs in the aftermath please raise them here:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=MobileFrontend
>> 
>> You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the
>> beta here:
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions
>> 
>> Looking forward to all your feedback.
>> 
>> Screenshot:
>> http://imgur.com/jnl5XA4
>> 
>> --
>> Jon Robson
>> http://jonrobson.me.uk
>> @rakugojon
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