I'm also in favor of adding Talk links to the apps. In fact it did a very
simple PoC[1] for the Android app a while ago, which I just rebased and
updated comments yesterday.

It's not perfect but I think it works pretty decently with regular Talk
pages. For Flow pages[2] more CSS is needed to make it look right. I've
dabbled with getting some Flow CSS included into our CSS bundle but there
are still a lot of issues left besides that[3]. I think for Flow pages we
would really need a native presentation in the app to do anything beyond a
read-only experience. There's an API for that.(TM)[4][5]
But again, even a read-only experience is better than none.

Cheers,
Bernd

[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/197851
[2] In app (enwiki) search for "Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page" or
open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow/Developer_test_page
[3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/226480
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/API
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=flow

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree that read-only access to talk pages from the app will be a
> great improvement, even without editing. Even if I can't fully respond
> while on my mobile device, I want to at least be able to see the
> discussions. My current workflow frequently involves manually
> searching for the talk page in the app. And most talk pages are
> actually quite readable.
>
> -Sage
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> for savvy readers they offer useful commentary about what's on (or off)
> >> the page and why.
> >
> >
> > Yes. And this doesn't require any special magic: wikitext pages are
> equally
> > ready to be read whether they are in namespace 1 or in namespace 0.
> >
> > Nemo
> >
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