The "this is what we have and it's better than nothing" has generally been my approach - and I've heard that from others as well. I haven't personally worked on any wikis in a few years where mobile use didn't come up (not much talk of it when I was using a Treo). However, I have no idea how widespread or common that may be. :)
Improvements to make this more usable by 3rd party wikis would be fantastic! -greg aka varnent On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi Brion, > > Short term: > > I believe a lot of MediaWiki based sites would welcome a simple way to > present their content in mobile interfaces. A combo of browser > autodetection and mobile friendly skin would do the trick (this is how > the Wordpress community is addressing the problem). Is Mobile Frontend > extension is what we have here and now then this is better then > nothing. > > Longer term: > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: >> * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a >> feature-phone gateway on other sites? > > (...) > >> * Do people intend primarily to make the wiki's user interface more >> friendly to modern smartphones, without caring about feature phones? >> >> If so, then moving to the next generation > > I'm not aware of the next generation plans you are referring to, but > you also need to take into account the "next generation" context for > smartphone vs feature-phone - which is precisely about the blurring of > that division. Cheaper devices with internet capabilities, bigger/full > screen and even touch are reaching more geographies. Pretty fast, for > phones and tablets. > > If you want to set a division then maybe you want to set it not > between "dumb" and "smart" devices (meaning cheap and expensive in > fact) but between passive and active users: > > - A majority will want just to consume content, share it, rate it, > perhaps subscribe to it and leave a short comment - regardless of the > "smartness" or price of their device. > > - A very important minority will want to engage deeper and contribute, > also with their mobile devices on the go. > > Can we assume that you need an expensive smartphone and Internet plan > to be more active in MediaWiki sites? I don't think so, but we should > go down to features to see exactly what type pf device requirements > are we talking about. > > -- > Quim > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
