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WLM app: create account?
by rupert THURNER 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

hi philip, would it be possible to add an account creation screen to the wlm mobile app? rupert.

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Ensuring a new skin is mobile friendly
by Nick White 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi list, I recently helped shepherd a new skin into Mediawiki; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Erudite I would like to think it is perfect in every way, but one area it hasn't had any love is making sure it works well on mobile devices. To the best of my knowledge it shouldn't do anything particularly heinous, but I don't have any such devices to test it on. If anybody has a few minutes and could have a play, and see if anything could be improved, please do and let me know on list. A live example of it is at https://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/erudite-demo/mediawiki-current/ which should have full editing etc rights enabled. It's a dummy wiki, so add whatever you like. Thanks in advance! Nick White

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Idea for WLM app's afterlife
by Philip Chang 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Yes, and we are updating our DB from the toolserver DB. There seem to be several issues, and Tomasz Finc or Arthur can summarize them. In brief, we had to do things in a temporary way in order to meet the deadline. And there were reasons we used our DB instead of the one on toolserver, but once the contest is over, the traffic will be a lot less. Phil On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>wrote: > Hi Philip, > > Maybe I'm wrong here, but as far as I'm aware, the current monument > database is actually being scraped each night from the wikipedia lists. So > basically it is a mirror of the lists with a lag up to 24 hours (if > toolserver works etc). But maybe we're talking about different databases? > Probably it would be easiest to just use one way or another the Monument > Database we're running, rather than reinventing the wheel. > > Lodewijk > > > 2012/9/28 Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> > >> Back to Lodewijk's idea of articles and monuments, we unfortunately have >> an issue with monuments, simply because the database is not maintainable. >> However, I have wondered about accessing monuments through the Wikipedia >> pages that list them. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Idea for WLM app's afterlife
by Philip Chang 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Great input, thanks Lodewijk and Tomasz. Your thoughts echo the thinking of the mobile team in terms of a broader vision of mobile contributions. The difficulty is in biting off smaller pieces that can realistically be achieved. Making articles that are geo-tagged available is a current initiative and requires new infrastructure. We currently use Geonames in the WIkipedia apps, which is an external service and limited in usage volume. We want to add the nearby function to the mobile site (which has much higher traffic than the apps) and that is what is driving this new infrastructure currently. Then there is the idea of adding geo tags to articles. What a great usage of mobile! Photos are an easy way to do this (killing two birds with one stone), so your thinking is right in line with what we are hoping to do. But there are some issues around submitting geo coordinates, whether automatically or not, that have to be worked through. Back to Lodewijk's idea of articles and monuments, we unfortunately have an issue with monuments, simply because the database is not maintainable. However, I have wondered about accessing monuments through the Wikipedia pages that list them. So yes, there are a number of next steps to be pursued. I will have to defer to Howie and Maryana to pick this up, as today is technically my last day. But as I said, I will be available as a volunteer. Phil On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Philip, > this wouldn't be very related to your question, but I've been recently > pointed to the idea of user notifications; e.g. when user passes by a > building (for instance a monument) for which we have geocoordinates > but no picture, s/he might receive a notification from the app to take > a photo. > > This was originally thought as a feature for the WLM app, but it might > be useful for another purposes, too (for instance, for buildings which > are not monuments, etc.). > > -- > Tomasz W. Kozłowski > a.k.a. [[user:odder]] > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Idea for WLM app's afterlife
by Philip Chang 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Here is an idea: Turn the WLM app into a similar app for uploading photos related to Wikipedia articles. This was in fact the original goal of the mobile photo upload project. One take on this is to use the Nearby search and article search as a way to find articles, then the upload will be given a title related to the article and some metadata can include the article ID. The WLM app will otherwise run the risk of not being functional past October, due to backend issues. Just a quick thought. Let the mobile team know if you think this is a good idea. Phil -- Phil Inje Chang Former Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation

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Human.io developed an app aimed at benefiting the Creative Commons, and Wiki Loves Monuments
by Patrick Reilly 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Human.io is the new thing from Joshua Schachter, founder of bookmarking site del.icio.us. This time, however, he's not suggesting you share your travels with a few friends — he's suggesting that you turn them into an army. "If you want to build a flash mob, but have it actually do something useful, this is your API," Schachter said. "It lets you invite your audience to become part of the action." The concept—developed by Paul Rademacher, creator of legendary Craigslist/Google Maps mashup Housingmaps, and Nick Nguyen, formerly of Yahoo and Mozilla — is straightforward enough: Human.io is a platform for performing "micro-tasks". First, you publish a simple, crowdsourceble activity, such as voting on something, going to a particular location, or taking photos — anything that might be accomplished with a smartphone's UI and its sensors. Then you tell your readers, followers or friends about it. They start the app, get cracking, and, finally, the results are sent back to you. To illustrate how the platform works, Human.io developed an app aimed at benefiting the Creative Commons, and Wiki Loves Monuments in particular: < http://wikipedia.human.io/>. The idea is to help Wikipedia's project to improve public access to photography of the world's architectural and local heritage. If you want to participate, install the free Human.io app (iOS, Android) and select the "Photograph a historic place" task. It'll cough up a list of anything nearby that's in the online encyclopedia's monument hit list. All you have to do is head out, take a shot, and let Human.io do the rest. It'll show up immediately at wikipedia.human.io, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. It bridges the gap between a useful task — in this case, contributing to Wikipedia's potential coverage of your neighborhood's history — and folks who might not otherwise be in a position to help out, let alone have fun doing so. <http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/humanio.html>

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Page layer navigation model for mobile wikipedia
by Arun Ganesh 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Inspired by the discussions of the design team meetings, I have been playing around with a few ideas for a simple navigation model for the mobile that can extend the feature set of tools and options available to users. It struck me that the article lead, some images and infobox data can give a very good idea of a topic that is alien to the reader and such a compact view on the mobile screen has a lot of value. It got me thinking of the possibility of decomposing any wiki page into multiple 'views' or layers that can alter the way one views the same page by selectively rearranging and hiding the content based on user usage patterns. Possible page layers could be: A) Overview: Condensed view of the article optimized for the small touch screen. It can also contain an index of topics covered that can act as navigation aid to jump directly to a section in the Article layer B) Article: The whole article, just like what you see in the current mobile site C) Gallery: Thumbnails of pictures, videos from the article. Could also fetch related content from other wikimedia projects D) Category: Allows you to jump to related topics if you are interested in the subject. E) Discussion: The talk page to discuss The search and other page functions including language selections go into a menubar that floats above the article. It would work like the menubar in Google Now which Pau Giner had showed during our meetings. When you scroll down its hidden, as you scroll up, the menu pops up again, which means that all the functions including search can be accessed from any part of the page (A variation of the sticky nav). This also saves screen space when you are reading and scrolling down, giving you a full page view of the article with no distractions. You can see a visual overview of this here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Wikimedia_mobile_layer_n… Just an idea, more discussion with the design team pending. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>

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Fwd: WLM Android app v1.2.4 Daigo-ji
by Philip Chang 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:53 PM Subject: WLM Android app v1.2.4 Daigo-ji To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear WLM Members, The WLM Android app has been updated to v1.2.4, named Daigo-ji. Release notes: * Dynamically loads localization updates * Clears large image previews before taking another photo - may help with "out of memory" errors * Stops "Mobile to desktop upload" category from being added to uploads from the app - this category should be limited to desktop uploads from a mobile upload Please note: there are issues with the Cordova interface to the camera that are outside of our control (Cordova is the app framework used to build our mobile apps). There are a significant number of users experiencing crashes and we are limited in our ability to debug these problems, for several reasons: * We are not able to reproduce these problems on the same devices that seems to be experiencing the problems * Google Play captures a part of the error which does not include the Cordova aspects * Google Play does not allow us to contact reviewers or people reporting crashes Therefore, if you hear of any users having such problems, please have them contact us by email at: mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. Thanks for your support. Phil -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Relevant to our interests
by Brandon Harris 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

No surprises here, but nice research. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/11/sticky-menus-are-quicker-to… --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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unclear message: wpmobj2me-lang-dialog-title
by Amir E. Aharoni 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

What is the meaning of the message wpmobj2me-lang-dialog-title in the mobile Wikipedia app? "Language Set" can be translated in many different ways. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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