Srsly. Cool. Really. ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:44 PM > Subject: Watchlists are coming to mobile > To: mobile-l <mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List > <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > After a few months of development the mobile team is launching > watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will > give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as > a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping > track of articles they are interested in reading. > > This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to > all Wiki* projects. > > This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile > developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more > prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage > new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware > that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find > the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a > contributor to our projects via mobile. > > Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be > deployed tomorrow. > > Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any > bugs in the aftermath please raise them here: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=MobileFrontend > > You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the > beta here: > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions > > Looking forward to all your feedback. > > Screenshot: > http://imgur.com/jnl5XA4 > > -- > Jon Robson > http://jonrobson.me.uk > @rakugojon > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
