Thanks very much for sharing this, Jon. It's the kind of work we definitely
want to hear about!



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Jon Katz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Discovery,
> Just an FYI that the wikidata team is doing something that touches mobile
> search on wikidata. The paragraph below from Lydia is the relevant one:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> * The others are for fixing the search. Wikidata's page titles are the
>> Q IDs. The default search on mobile uses page titles. So to find
>> anything you have to type in the Q ID. This is obviously not very
>> useful. It needs to work on labels like it does on the desktop site.
>> To see the problem simply type some word into the search box on the
>> mobile site and then try the same with typing Q1.
>>
>
> It belongs to this phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85368
>
> Which belongs to this epic about getting wikidata to work on mobile:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78430
>
> -J
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reading-web-team] JK: Wikidata Mobile
> To: Jon Katz <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jon Robson <[email protected]>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey :)
> >
> > Bene is doing this in part as a volunteer and in part as an intern for
> > us (he started earlier this week).
> > The patches are parts of fixing two remaining issues we have from what
> > I can tell:
> > * The table of content box is bigger than the actual table of content
> > entries. You can see this here for example:
> > https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2
> > * The others are for fixing the search. Wikidata's page titles are the
> > Q IDs. The default search on mobile uses page titles. So to find
> > anything you have to type in the Q ID. This is obviously not very
> > useful. It needs to work on labels like it does on the desktop site.
> > To see the problem simply type some word into the search box on the
> > mobile site and then try the same with typing Q1.
> >
> > Hope that helps.If you have more questions please let me know.
>
> Oh and the relevant ticket for getting Wikidata to work nicely on
> mobile is: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78430 I think once the
> search and the table of content are fixed I think we're done there and
> I'll have Bene work on other things again. I don't plan to tackle
> editing further at the moment.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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