> On 28 Jul 2014, at 21:43, Maryana Pinchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday afternoon, Juliusz, Dan Foy and I sat down to test the mobile site > on a few lower-end phones and browsers. Specifically, we looked at > en.m.wikipedia on a Nokia not running JavaScript and a higher-end Samsung > phone (Juliusz's) running Opera Mini. > > Some issues we may want to figure out/fix at some point in the near-to-medium > future, in order of priority: > > 1) Using screen size detection to decide whether to serve certain features to > lower-end devices results in some unexpected issues, like the watchlist star > showing up in landscape mode but not portrait mode on Nokia no js. More > pressingly, the search field frame doesn't show up on Opera Mini on a > higher-end phone, despite the fact that it's a no-JS experience (and has no > placeholders in the search field, making the search area weirdly blank and > confusing). According to Dan, the Opera Mini + higher end Android phone combo > is pretty common in the developing world, so we probably need a better way to > handle it. There's an open bug on this here: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64926
Opera mini on android is used by over 100 million unique users on a monthly basis, so it's quite relevant. > > 2) Another issue with Opera mini not showing placeholders: the login and > create account forms appear blank, so it's pretty much impossible to figure > out what to enter into each of the fields. Bug here: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68758 > > 3) The watch/unwatch workflow in no-JS mode is pretty wonky: when you tap the > watch star, you get taken to a separate page (which has the article title at > the top, making it look sort of like the article is broken/missing) that > tells you you're now watching the article, but the star doesn't change state > and there's no way to get back to the article without using browser/device > back. > > # 2 & 3 point to a larger issue, which is whether login is really worth it > for these users, if pretty much all they can do is watch/unwatch articles and > look at changes to them – the watchlist features might be more confusing than > beneficial, especially in the suboptimal way they're now implemented, and the > Mobile Web team doesn't really have the time/bandwidth to improve them at > this point. Oliver reported that over the course of 90 days, 28000 pages were edited using the desktop version of Wikipedia on Opera Mini. These people want to edit pages, but have no mechanism on the mobile site to do so. > I'm leaning toward suggesting that we remove login/account creation entirely > on no-JS devices and Opera Mini browser and only revisit it when we can build > a robust set of features that meet clear end-user needs – but I'd be > interested in hearing what you guys (Zero + Mobile Web) think, and how we > might test to figure out what these user needs are. > > The full notes from our testing are here: > http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Lower_end_devices_checkup > > -- > Maryana Pinchuk > Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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