Hampton was our first contract mobile developer. He agreed to open source his iOS Wikipedia app and joined us to improve it. His second project was creating the Mobile Web Ruby gateway which was the first non WML experience for our mobile users and our first large experiment in mobile.
He and I are still in contact every now and then and he's subscribed to this list. --tomasz On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > It sounds to me like this guy is talking about writing the old PhoneGap app, > not the mobile website. Still, some insight from someone that was around > then would be good! > > Dan > > On 10 February 2015 at 13:28, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinc...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: >> >> Hmm. I wasn't around in 2008, but I have a really hard time believing that >> the mobile gateway this guy wrote has much resemblance to current MFE (which >> according to mw.org was created in 2011). And responsive design isn't the >> be-all end-all of mobile development – many top 10 web properties these days >> have custom experiences and features for different device classes, not just >> a single skin that shrinks (Facebook, YouTube, Quora, Twitter, etc.). Sounds >> like an attempt at self-promotion that inadvertently reveals this dude's >> n00bness ;) >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://unmatchedstyle.com/news/how-a-chaos-monkey-created-wikipedia-mobile.php >>> >>> Podcast interview with Hampton Catlin, who in 2008 "was brought on >>> board to lead the development of Wikipedia’s mobile project. ... Upon >>> his departure, he assumed that Wikipedia would do a responsive >>> rewrite, but noted that the mobile site he created is still being >>> used, although with a few new features." [disclaimer: haven't actually >>> listened to the audio] >>> >>> -- >>> Tilman Bayer >>> Senior Analyst >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Maryana Pinchuk >> Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation >> wikimediafoundation.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
