CC'ing mobile-l as i'm sure the'll be interested by this. --tomasz
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpna...@gmail.com> wrote: > 'Wikitrack' started out from an idea that I had about tracking edits on > Wikipedia from mobile. I always felt that there's more to tracking edits > and their quality on Wikipedia. For one, we could zero-in on better > contributors than just going by the edit counts. And doing that for mobile > could be good for a tool that can be used on the go. > > WikiTrack in its initial version had been released last year for Wikipedia > projects of few Indian languages, namely Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and > Sanskrit for Android. The initial version allows the users to just track > the Recent Changes, the diff between changes, their Watchlist and any > user's contributions. Each of these have seen thousands of downloads (As of > the day of sending this email: WikiTrack Tamil[1] - 17345 downloads with > an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, WikiTrack Kannada[2] - 14480 downloads > with an average rating of 4.038 out of 5 and WikiTrack Malayalam [3] with > 7756 downloads with an average rating of 3.8 out of 5 on Google's Play > Store) with thousands of active users tracking their favorite Wikimedia > project using this application. The project so far has been self funded and > the source code of the app has been released under GPL. > > I've put in an IEG Proposal[4] with a goal to consolidate these different > apps into one and to provide support for all Indian languages and beyond > (covering as many languages as possible), to rewrite the code, to make it > better and to extend it further to improve the utility of the app including > a release for iOS. > > The idea is to achieve the above goal and get it to a good shape before > planning further on including other useful ways of allowing the editors to > track Wikimedia projects from mobile and to keep them engaged. > > I realize that this is the very last minute request, but would love to hear > feedback about it. > > [1] > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikitracktamil > [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikikannada > [3] > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikitrackmalayalam > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack > > In case this is an incorrect list to post this, kindly accept my apologies > and help by pointing me to the right one. > > Thanks! > -- > Hari Prasad Nadig > http://hpnadig.net > http://twitter.com/hpnadig > http://flickr.com/hpnadig > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
