Sorry for the late reply. Here is the reply I sent a couple of days ago that bounced since I wrote it from my usual email account:
Hello, Thanks for reminding me of this thread and specifically for showing me this suggestion, which I hadn't seen. We are actually working on a similar idea. I will post a message about it in about two days' time, as I am currently working on a restructuration of the Bookshelf Project, where I also have some news shortly. Best wishes, Lennart 2011/4/13 Sue Gardner <sgard...@wikimedia.org> > On 12 April 2011 12:02, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry > > 9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously > > annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual > > reading. > > > > (At least Vector worked in that version of the BlackBerry browser ...) > > > > Does anyone here edit any of the WMF wikis, or any other wiki, on > > their phone much? What's it like, and what's the phone? > > > I edit, infrequently, from my Droid Pro. It's actually not too > gruesome, because the whole phone is optimized for text input. (The > Pro is the so-called Blackberry killer, the one with the excellent > physical keyboard.) > > It's not fun, due mostly to the small screen size, but it's possible. > I do quick time-sensitive wiki-tasks from it and I occasionally fix > typos, but I would never attempt a complicated article edit. > > Stepping back a bit -- for anyone who doesn't know, mobile is a > second-level priority for the Wikimedia Foundation right now (behind > Rich Text Editor and new editor retention). You can read more here: > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Whitepaper. Gist is, we > want to support both low-end and high-end phones and connections, and > do some experimentation with mobile contribution mechanisms -- minor > edits, image uploads, article ratings, and that kind of thing. > Basically the kind of thing Quim Gil was talking about, below.... > > >> On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil <quim....@nokia.com> wrote: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/App_Features_&_Roadmap > > > * "Share this" like WikiNews does. > > * Watch an article - simple way to get readers progressively involved. > > * Patrol a new article - could be suggested by the app. > > * Geotag an article - maybe there is a way to offer suggestions. > > * Assess the relevance / importance of an article - app could suggest > > * Upload and embed a picture to a page - implementation might be tricky. > > * Add a comment in the discussion page - rather than applying templates > > directly. > > * Let SuggestBot to suggest me a mobile task - (with some fine tuning of > > the bot this could be a stand-alone mobile app in itself) > > * Spellchecking - highly automated, engine tbd. > > Thanks, > Sue > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Lennart Guldbrandsson, Fellow of the Wikimedia Foundation // Wikimedia Foundation-stipendiat _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
