Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

Thanks, Srikanth. I would love to hear from someone who uses a high end phone, and I can promise it would be a very interesting conversation that would help provide a better user experience for everyone who reads and edits Wikipedia on the phone :) Mani On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Srikanth Ramak

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

Heya guys, I think somebody like hari Prasad, Anoopan, or somebody with a high end phone, [Android/BlackBerry/iPhone/Nokia Eseries] et all, get in touch with Mani as that segment was completely left out by me, when we had our conversation. --Regards, On 1 November 2010 22:09, Gerard Meijssen wro

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Hoi Mani, I am now subscribed on a gentlemen on twitter that expressed really interesting and imho relevant observations about telephony and web sites in India. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-foss-and-telephony-in-india.html The remarks are quite strong and are not limited to I

[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

> Hi Everyone, > > I am still looking for participants for the study on Wikipedia usage on the > mobile phone. I am relaxing the criteria for recruitment, and I am hoping > more Wikipedians will qualify for the study. If you read Wikipedia on the > phone (English and Indic languages) or have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Anoop wrote: > I have tried Malayalam Wikipedia on my android 2.1 mobile. Rendering is > very poor :( . Instead of letters it just shows the squares. But on Opera > browser you can see the letters (except unicode 5.1 chillu lettes (atomic > chillu letters)) by doi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

g Award Lecture From: Shiju Alex To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 10:03:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most of the other Indian scripts

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a-l@lists.wikimedia.org > *Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia > > Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with > the 3G war in India. > > The support for other language

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On Tuesday 26 October 2010 10:09 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > I'm able to read Tamil text on Opera Mini browser on my Nokia N72 (with some > difficulty). >> From: Shiju Alex >> >> Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most >> of >> the other Indian scripts. (Devan

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m:* Ramesh N G > *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > *Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia > > Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with > the 3G war in India.

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ly a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Shiju Alex >To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 10:03:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediai

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; *Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia > > Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with > the 3G war in India. > > The support for other languages and unicode should be improv

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ber 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia > >Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the >3G >war in India. > > >The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > So Android uses Unicode fonts, fonts may not be available.. Just complain > LOUDLY and PUBLICLY and together that not supporting fonts for Indic > languages is not acceptable in India (and outside of India ). > Android 1.5 did not support

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On 26 October 2010 19:44, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > So Android uses Unicode fonts, fonts may not be available.. Just complain > LOUDLY and PUBLICLY and together that not supporting fonts for Indic > languages is not acceptable in India (and outside of India ). > Thanks, =) Indeed! Thank you.

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Hoi, In this thread you find your answer: ** Comment 4 by petrosyan , Jan 08, 2010 Android 1.5 supports embedded CSS fonts, and you can use any unicode font you want to. For a demo of embedded CSS

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On 26 October 2010 19:32, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > I doubt very much that Android does not support Unicode. It may not have the > fonts that you need. Very possible I might be wrong but I did find this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925 Thank you. Best, Gautam h

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Hoi, I doubt very much that Android does not support Unicode. It may not have the fonts that you need. Thanks, GerardM On 26 October 2010 15:57, Gautam John wrote: > On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? > > I have to confess, I have

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On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I have to confess, I have not. Only going by the ads. The other thing is lack of Unicode support. Andriod doesn't support Unicode, IIRC. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ _

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Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the 3G war in India. The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the mobiles. I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are

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I agree with Srikanth on this issue. I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and have even edited several articles from my phone. On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John wrote: > >> Arjuna makes a good point on

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John wrote: > Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs, > don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for > free? > Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely advertising but actually it

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Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs, don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for free? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikim

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Hi Arjuna, Thanks for your feedback. It is a good point that data cost continue to be prohibitive. But our preliminary research has shown that users in India are using mobile phones (not just smart phones) which have a data plan (pre-paid or post paid) to access the Wikipedia. I am interested i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Mani Pande wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I wanted to introduce myself and also use this listserv for recruiting for > a study that I am doing to understand the user experience of reading the > Wikipedia on the mobile phone and understand the possibilities/feasibiliti

[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

Hi Everyone, I wanted to introduce myself and also use this listserv for recruiting for a study that I am doing to understand the user experience of reading the Wikipedia on the mobile phone and understand the possibilities/feasibilities of using the mobile phone as a platform for editing the W