On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:02 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In fact Wikimedia content is also popular among mobile users (directly > > or through apps), but what about mobile contributions? > > I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry > 9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously > annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual > reading. > > (At least Vector worked in that version of the BlackBerry browser ...) > > Does anyone here edit any of the WMF wikis, or any other wiki, on > their phone much? What's it like, and what's the phone? I've edited a number of times from an iPhone (both 3G and 4). It's doable, in principle -- at least for basic editing -- but I wouldn't describe it as a very user-friendly experience. One particular issue I've encountered is that multi-line input fields (i.e. standard MediaWiki edit boxes) are fairly difficult to work with on the iOS Safari interface; scrolling through the field is either extremely slow or doesn't work at all. This isn't as big a deal when editing articles; but for talk pages -- where one normally intends to reply at the bottom of a section -- the scrolling required can quickly become prohibitively time-consuming. (I'm not sure whether it would be possible to have the edit field auto-scroll to the bottom of the available text, at least for certain mobile devices. Alternately, LiquidThreads might solve the problem as well, assuming we ever get them.) Kirill _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
