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From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
They are?
Perhaps I've missed something big...
(Oh: you said user-friendly)
Yeah. In-app billing is a feature of the Android Market platform and
described here:
On 10/8/11 7:21 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Erik Moellere...@wikimedia.org
They are?
Perhaps I've missed something big...
(Oh: you said user-friendly)
Yeah. In-app billing is a feature of the Android Market platform and
described here:
(Cross-posting this to fundraising mailing list, as I suspect not many
Fundraisers read Wikitech-l)
Summary: WMF is going to release an Android Wikipedia app shortly (other
mobile OS will get an app, too)
On 10/07/2011 03:25 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
One good question that Brion just asked me was
- Original Message -
From: church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com
How about making a free version and an (identical!) Support Wikipedia
version that has absolutly the same features, but costs $2 that go to
WMF as a donation? :)
Why we should do this: It's an extremly
Hoi.
One distinct advantage of daily builds is that you use these to distribute
improved localisations... Will this app come to translatewiki.net ? If so,
it does make sense to build this functionality that is similar to what is
offered by thr localisationupdate extrnsion.
Thanks,
GerardM
2011/10/7 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi.
One distinct advantage of daily builds is that you use these to distribute
improved localisations... Will this app come to translatewiki.net ? If so,
it does make sense to build this functionality that is similar to what is
offered by
2011/10/7 church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com
How about making a free version and an (identical!) Support Wikipedia
version that has absolutly the same features, but costs $2 that go to
WMF as a donation? :)
Why we should do this: It's an extremly simple way for users to
2011/10/7 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com
On a separate topic, it would probably be useful if someone built nightlies
of the repo, so that those of us who are good usability test types but not
necessarily coders or set up to build can contribute too; the original
announcement didn't sound like
2011/10/7 Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com:
Note that the app-store middlemen take a 30% transaction fee, so we'd get
$140k and Google or Amazon (or Apple if we do an iPhone version same way)
gets $60k. 30% sounds high but probably isn't much worse than individual $2
credit card payments. :)
I
How about we negotiate 0% transaction charge and they match the donation. It
shows their support and is chump change to them.
On Oct 7, 2011 9:47 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
2011/10/7 church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com
How about making a free version and an
Phone Gap build might be able to do this for us. If not I'm sure were could
rig something up.
On Oct 7, 2011 9:52 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
2011/10/7 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com
On a separate topic, it would probably be useful if someone built
nightlies
of the repo, so that
2011/10/7 Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org
Phone Gap build might be able to do this for us. If not I'm sure were could
rig something up.
I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which would
no doubt confuse a great many people, I would strongly suggest that we
implement a
On 10/07/2011 11:07 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which would
no doubt confuse a great many people, I would strongly suggest that we
implement a pay what you want sliding scale for our apps on both iPhone
and Android. If X app store
It would be really cool to be able to donate via in-app billing.
Pete
On 10/7/11 14:35 PM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
So I think we'll have to stick to fixed donation amounts. If someone
really wants to contribute a different amount, he can just use at
donate.wikimedia.org :)
2011/10/7 Peter Kaminski kamin...@istori.com
It would be really cool to be able to donate via in-app billing.
Pete
Yes! I think in-app payments as prompts for donations (even if just during
the annual fundraiser, or say, once right after you download) is a good
alternative idea too.
Steven
2011/10/7 Peter Kaminski kamin...@istori.com
It would be really cool to be able to donate via in-app billing.
Pete
While in-app billing for donations is a cool idea, we'd need to make sure
we're going to get more than 70% of the donations. Granted 70% is better
than the 0% we get now for
Hi,
2011/10/7 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which would
no doubt confuse a great many people [...]
I'm not sure about this confusion thing. It's pretty common to have
two identical versions of the same app, with one
2011/10/7 Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org
Hi,
2011/10/7 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which
would
no doubt confuse a great many people [...]
I'm not sure about this confusion thing. It's pretty common to
2011/10/8 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
2011/10/7 Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org
Hi,
2011/10/7 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which
would
no doubt confuse a great many people [...]
I'm not
2011/10/7 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
I've not once seen two identical apps by the same company, but one for pay
arbitrarily. There are premium versions with additional features, but
that's not what we're talking about here.
There are some at
2011/10/7 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com
[1] https://market.android.com/details?id=net.osmandfeature=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.osmand.plusfeature=search_result
http://code.google.com/p/osmand/
[2] https://market.android.com/search?q=donateso=1c=apps
Heh.
Calling any devs that want to make this be a reality
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31513
Help us code in app donations.
--tomasz
2011/10/7 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
2011/10/7 Peter Kaminski kamin...@istori.com
It would be really cool to be able to donate via
- Original Message -
From: Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com
2011/10/7 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com
On a separate topic, it would probably be useful if someone built nightlies
of the repo, so that those of us who are good usability test types but not
necessarily coders or set up to
- Original Message -
From: Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
2011/10/7 Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org
Phone Gap build might be able to do this for us. If not I'm sure
were could rig something up.
I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which would
2011/10/7 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com:
- Original Message -
From: Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
2011/10/7 Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org
Phone Gap build might be able to do this for us. If not I'm sure
were could rig something up.
I think rather than have two
2011/10/7 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com:
And as an Android user, I absolutely hate when there's two versions
of the same app. Supporting in-app donations would be way nicer.
Agreed, for other reasons as well (donation options should be easily
discoverable by any user). In-app payments in
- Original Message -
From: Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com
There are *zillions* of apps in the Android market that are this is the
free
version, and this is the paid version that supports (our development).
And as an Android user, I absolutely hate when there's two versions
of
- Original Message -
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
2011/10/7 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com:
And as an Android user, I absolutely hate when there's two versions
of the same app. Supporting in-app donations would be way nicer.
Agreed, for other reasons as well (donation
2011/10/7 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com:
Agreed, for other reasons as well (donation options should be easily
discoverable by any user). In-app payments in Android are pretty
user-friendly, and I think are the right model here. :-)
They are?
Perhaps I've missed something big...
(Oh: you
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