Brion, Patrick and I chatted about this and we have an initial game plan for this. I'll publish the notes on wiki in a couple after we clean them up.
Rough notes are here : http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/MobileFrontendChanges --tomasz On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
