On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Steven Walling
wrote:
> It's really great to see Wikipedia highlighted as a source for news and
> current events. It's rare that people fully recognize the degree to which
> the "encyclopedia" is actually very good at trending news
Is it possible to block this spam?
Note that this organization (SDIWC) is listed at
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ (cf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishing ).
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Lubna Kanan wrote:
>
Hi,
For those of you following who I haven't worked with before, I am the lead
product manager for the reading team.
I think James is right that the content is a primary barrier and its an
issue we are exploring across both reading and editing. For what its
worth, this applies not just to the
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On 11 May 2016 at 14:20, Michael Peel wrote:
> I'm hoping that having a responsive skin for the webpages isn't too far
> off, though?
>
Reading can answer that better than I; however, making the skin itself is
only part of the issue – you also would want to scrap
On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Michael Peel wrote:
> Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having
> a separate mobile interface/URL?
> For a practical example, see the BBC News website
New study (US only) by the Knight Foundation:
https://medium.com/mobile-first-news-how-people-use-smartphones-to ,
summarized here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/people-love-wikipedia/482268/
"People spent more time on Wikipedia’s mobile site than any other news
or