> ...if there is some wiki-reader app that uses API for it to work. There is indeed[0], and it does! :)
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, mobile phones would probably benefit from this most, if there is > some wiki-reader app that uses API for it to work. > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I created this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119878 > > > > The basic idea is that it shouldn't be a big problem to compress > > output of api.php script using some widely available library, like > > gzip. > > > > That way the size of communication between client and server would be > > much smaller and users with slow internet might benefit from this. I > > am not sure how much the data would be reduced, but it could be a > > significant number in some cases. > > > > What do you think about it? Is there any reason not to do that? > > > > Note I don't propose some breaking change, rather just create an > > optional parameter "compression" that would be passed for API > > requests. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dmitry Brant Mobile Apps Team (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
