Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India
Aditya Sengupta and I asked a group of engineering students at VJTI to test this today during a talk we were doing. Good feedback from all of them - they found it useful to get the first para of the relevant wikipedia article. Some said it would be a good way to get quick info in situations where net connectivity does not exist. Bishakha On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Abhi abhishekjacob...@gmail.com wrote: Tried it. Really cool! The response is pretty fast. As I have an SMS offer it costs me only 1 paise. It'll be of great use for people with basic phones especially students. -- വിക്കനഭി wikkanabhi.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/abhishek_jacob ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Abhishek_Jacob ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India
Does ordering this content via SMS cost any money? Asaf On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi all, We just had a demo of an interesting SMS application called txtwebhttp://www.txtweb.com/. It is a beta platform that allows content developers to publish their content using an apps model. It was developed by some engineers at Intuit as a side project a few months back. They have developed an app for English Wikipedia that has been rolled out in India. The whole platform is India only for now. How it works: Type: @wikipediaspacearticle name e.g., @wikipedia mumbai gets you the Mumbai article. Send the SMS to 92433-42000 Links have a letter associated with it e.g., (B)Maharashtra. If you reply (B) it will send you that article. It would be great if folks tried out the service and provided feedback to us (and we'll pass it on). I've set up a page on Strategy Wiki for people to add comments: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Txtweb_feedback I'm particularly interested in how folks use such a service and whether the limited length of the message delivers a decent user experience. Also, how would you improve the UI. Feel free to pass this on to other lists or groups. Best, Barry -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India
Yes, Asaf, the cost for one SMS would be approximately 50 paise or 0.01 USD. For certain subscription plans, SMS will be free upto a ceiling of 250 or more per month. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 5:00:00 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India Does ordering this content via SMS cost any money? Asaf On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, We just had a demo of an interesting SMS application called txtweb. It is a beta platform that allows content developers to publish their content using an apps model. It was developed by some engineers at Intuit as a side project a few months back. They have developed an app for English Wikipedia that has been rolled out in India. The whole platform is India only for now. How it works: Type: @wikipediaspacearticle name e.g., @wikipedia mumbai gets you the Mumbai article. Send the SMS to 92433-42000 Links have a letter associated with it e.g., (B)Maharashtra. If you reply (B) it will send you that article. It would be great if folks tried out the service and provided feedback to us (and we'll pass it on). I've set up a page on Strategy Wiki for people to add comments: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Txtweb_feedback I'm particularly interested in how folks use such a service and whether the limited length of the message delivers a decent user experience. Also, how would you improve the UI. Feel free to pass this on to other lists or groups. Best, Barry -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India
I tried the following: @wikipedia Tamil it gives: Tamil may refer to: (which is the first line and has a paragraph break after that. so it gives text until there is a paragraph break) @wikipedia ta:AU (which is a redirect page in Tamil Wikipedia for Astronomical Unit with a active Tamil title) This returned text from Tamil Wikipedia page. But only numbers and english text were visible. The Tamil text was not visible even in a normally Tamil sms displaying Nokia phone. @wikipedia nl:Tamil This returned the text from Dutch wikipedia :) . So the service is available for all roman letter wikipedias. @wikipedia ta:தமிழ் (Page for Tamil language in Tamil Wikipedia with title in Tamil letters) Got no response for this. So, I think the server couldn't understand non-roman letters. This phone can normally send and receive Tamil sms. ravi @wikipedia ta: ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
