James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice. Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes I eventually found that app. And it is much superior to editing from the > browser. But it doesn't support ProofreadPage extension. Still between the > app and browser it is definitely workable with two edits. My concern is much > more that the reading/navigation experience seems to be driving people to > these apps which strip out all of the editing and maybe even WMF messaging. > And these people must be genuinely interested in Wikipedia to download a > special app for it. Probably people who are decent candidates to convert to > editors.
This is definitely a problem. New readership is growing much faster on mobile and tablet devices, and we don't have a single channel for them to participate in the edting/reading/communicating community, as you say. On the positive side, we can find out a lot about people based on what tool they are using to visit and browse the site, so we can directly encourage them to become editors, or to download better apps/tools for using the projects. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
