hi,
My points:
1. I tried this in the morning and evening. It was much slower in the
evening.
2. It cost me Rs. 1.20 (which I think is because it was an out of Mumbai
number)
3. It only shows up the first few lines in a Wikipedia article. Perhaps, the
introduction paragraph.
4. The service uses a bunch of alphabets (A, B, C etc) for links in the
introduction paragraph. Perhaps this can be used for linking to the
sub-sections below the introductory paragraph (A. History B. Geography C.
Demographics and so on).
eg. for the India article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
"*ndia* ([image:
Listen]<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-India.o…
i <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-India.ogg>
/<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English>
ˈ
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key>ɪ<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key>
n
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key>d<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key>
i
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key>ə<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key>
/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English>), officially the
*Republic of India* (Hindi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language>: भारत
गणराज्य *Bhārat Gaṇarājya*; see also official names of
India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_names_of_India>)a>),
is a country in South <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia>
Asia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia>ia>.
It is the
seventh-largest<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outly…
country
by geographical area, the second-most
populous<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population>
country
with over 1.2 billion
people<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India>ia>,
and the most populous democracy in the
world.[16]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-largestdem2-15&g…
"
It has A, B, C next to the links - South Asia, seventh-largest etc.
It might be a good idea to say A - Etymology, B - History C. Geography and
so on.
5. The option to show more by replying is a good one too.
6. I will try doing a search for an article which does not match with a
title in Wikipedia. Curious to know what it will return. Will test that
tomorrow.
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
On 2 February 2011 17:54, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, who owns that number? Wikipedia or some service
provider?
What is the assurance from the service provider that the senders
number will not be used for spam or any other malicious purpose? Has
anyone considered privacy, security related issues?
Regards,
-Sudhanwa
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi all,
We just had a demo of an interesting SMS application called txtweb. It is
a
beta platform that allows content developers to
publish their content
using
an apps model. It was developed by some
engineers at Intuit as a side
project a few months back.
They have developed an app for English Wikipedia that has been rolled out
in
India. The whole platform is India only for
now.
How it works:
Type: @wikipedia<space><article name> e.g., @wikipedia mumbai gets you
the
Mumbai article.
Send the SMS to 92433-42000
Links have a letter associated with it e.g., (B)Maharashtra. If you reply
(B) it will send you that article.
It would be great if folks tried out the service and provided feedback to
us
(and we'll pass it on). I've set up a
page on Strategy Wiki for people to
add comments:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Txtweb_feedback
I'm particularly interested in how folks use such a service and whether
the
limited length of the message delivers a decent
user experience. Also,
how
would you improve the UI.
Feel free to pass this on to other lists or groups.
Best,
Barry
--
Barry Newstead
Chief Global Development Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634
Skype: barry.wikimedia
Twitter: @bazanews
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