Thanks for the link Adam, there's interesting context there.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> My understanding is: in part, although people who were on the mobile team
> during the most active part of these projects are probably best situated to
> speak to it. There's also this page that has some historical information:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Wikipedia/Hybrid_notes
>
> -Adam
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Stephane Bisson <sbis...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Is the firefox os wikipedia app that's currently out there based on the
>> old phonegap app?
>>
>> https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/wikipedia/
>>
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/apps/firefox/wikipedia
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Michael Holloway <
>> mhollo...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The old PhoneGap app repo lives here on GitHub:
>>> https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile
>>>
>>> (I haven't touched it and can't speak to its current state.)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
>>> jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've also floated the idea of cleaning up / replacing the experimental
>>>>> Firefox OS app (which is based on our old PhoneGap app code) and using a
>>>>> modernized HTML5+JS app for both Firefox OS and Windows 10 Tablet/Mobile.
>>>>> Nobody's bitten on the idea yet, but I think it might be better than 
>>>>> trying
>>>>> to separately spin up resources for multiple minority mobile OSs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Where is such phonegap app? I'm very interested in building a web
>>>> client and have already been doing so for the last 2 hackathons
>>>> <http://chimeces.com/webkipedia/> (T106275
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106275>) and I'm working on it
>>>> thinking mobile first.
>>>>
>>>> I would be very interested in checking the feature set of the old
>>>> phonegap app and when good enough, making an effort to package something
>>>> like that web client for firefoxOS & windows phone.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Niedzielski <
>>>> sniedziel...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   Hey! I believe we update the Wikipedia for Fire OS (Android) app[0]
>>>>> whenever a production version has fully rolled out on Play, although we
>>>>> don't offer the Beta[2] on Appstore. I can see they're both currently at
>>>>> the latest and greatest. I don't have Fire device presently, but if you
>>>>> highlight a term for sharing and have Wikipedia installed, you should get
>>>>> the option to search with the app. I *thought* there was also some
>>>>> additional platform level support for Wikipedia lookups built by Amazon 
>>>>> but
>>>>> I might be mistaken.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --stephen
>>>>>
>>>>> [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=org.wikipedia
>>>>> [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
>>>>> [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Brion,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the Wikipedia app promoted to Kindle Fire users very much? It
>>>>>> would be interesting if highlighting a term in a Kindle book or newspaper
>>>>>> would take the user to a Wikipedia or Wiktionary article for definitions
>>>>>> and background info.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to support Wikipedia app
>>>>>> development for Windows with Microsoft financing or in-kind contribution 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> developer time. Any thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pine
>>>>>> On Jul 25, 2015 6:08 PM, "Brion Vibber" <bvib...@wikimedia.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Mobilizers,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. Do you think it would make sense to develop a Wikipedia app for
>>>>>>>> Kindle, or to encourage Amazon to do so or financially sponsor its
>>>>>>>> development?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kindle Fire devices are Android-based and can run the existing
>>>>>>> Android Wikipedia app. The bare-bones e-ink Kindle readers are another
>>>>>>> story perhaps. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2. Same questions for Windows and Microsoft, especially considering
>>>>>>>> the Windows 10 launch.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I did an experimental JavaScript/WinJS-based Windows tablet app back
>>>>>>> for the Windows 8 launch, which is still in the Windows Store but needs 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> be cleaned up for Windows 10 or perhaps killed and replaced. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Windows 10 will also have a Mobile edition for phones 'and small
>>>>>>> tablets'; there's a unified app platform between desktop and mobile on
>>>>>>> Windows 10 so it should be possible to adapt the tablet app to run on
>>>>>>> phones (or rewrite it entirely to run on both!)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There's also been some talk about using the framework Microsoft has
>>>>>>> put together for porting Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile, but I don't
>>>>>>> think anybody has a good handle on how tricky that will be to use, or 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> cost-benefit of working on Windows 10 Mobile in general.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've also floated the idea of cleaning up / replacing the
>>>>>>> experimental Firefox OS app (which is based on our old PhoneGap app 
>>>>>>> code)
>>>>>>> and using a modernized HTML5+JS app for both Firefox OS and Windows 10
>>>>>>> Tablet/Mobile. Nobody's bitten on the idea yet, but I think it might be
>>>>>>> better than trying to separately spin up resources for multiple minority
>>>>>>> mobile OSs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- brion
>>>>>>>
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