True, surfing on phone takes you to Wikipedia mobile. I think what the guy was
trying to pass is that when one goes to www.wikipedia.org (on phone) the page
there is somewhat hectic to view/navigate for mobile phones with small screens
and his suggestion was to display only primary languages with an option of
secondary languages dep[ending on which country you are accessing Wikipedia
from.
IMO, yah, the page (on mobile) could be easier to navigate through if the
suggestion put forward was implemented. I'd suggest an inclusion of a
drop-down-list or something as other languages to list all languages on
Wikipedia.
Alex
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Hi,
I'm not quite sure I've understood what you're talking about.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that WMF is prioritizing Wikipedia
Mobile.
<snip>On mobile devices , many people go directly to wikipedia.org .
Unfortunately, this shows the standard portal page of the globe and languages
.</snip>
Errm, are you sure about this statement? My mobile phone automatically
redirects to Wikipedia Mobile, which is in Beta currently. This Beta version
has new features already, such as a drop-down feature for changing your
language.
//Abbas.
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:46:23 +0300
From: wanjaus...@gmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Join The Discussion
Hello,
I came across this on the project Wikipedia mobile, and I thought it's worth
sharing.
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On mobile devices , many people go directly to wikipedia.org . Unfortunately,
this shows the standard portal page of the globe and languages . Everyone in
the world currently sees the same page on their mobile device, and it is not so
easy to read and navigate that page on a small screen.
What if we could show a country-
specific portal page automatically, based on the current location of the user?
The search interface would use the most-used language of that country, with
secondary languages for that
country prominently displayed as
options.
In order to see how countries use languages, take a look here :
http://stats .wikimedia.org
/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm
In some countries, the native
language is the primary version of Wikipedia that is used. Certainly that is
true of all
English-speaking countries,
Germany, France, Spain, Japan, etc.
But there are more than 60 countries where English is not their native
language, and yet English Wikipedia is the primary version. Usually the
secondary version is the one in their
native language.
And in India , English may be the
common denominator, but all the Indic languages would be obvious choices.
Easily searching in one of those
languages could be so much more obvious. Viewing and typing in some languages
can be an issue, of course.
What do you think of this idea? Give us your feedback so we can prioritize this
project.
***
Regards,
Stephen
---Better late than never,but never late is better.---
iwanjau.WordPress.com
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