Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

2016-05-11 Thread Tilman Bayer
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

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [IEEE-CyberSec2016] Invitation for Participation

2016-05-11 Thread Tilman Bayer
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: >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

2016-05-11 Thread Jon Katz
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

[WikimediaMobile] [IEEE-CyberSec2016] Invitation for Participation

2016-05-11 Thread Lubna Kanan
*** We apologize for multiples copies. Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. *** 2016 Fifth International Conference on Cyber

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

2016-05-11 Thread James Forrester
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

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

2016-05-11 Thread James Forrester
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

[WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

2016-05-11 Thread Tilman Bayer
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