Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

Jeremy Baron, 10/02/2015 22:33: I'm pretty sure Hampton was ruby mobile web interface which IIRC rewrote the desktop output on the fly. For those who have forgotten, see his blog posts in 2009: https://blog.wikimedia.org/author/hcatlin/ There are some screenshots in them, as well as mentions o

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

Yeah, and you should all listen to the interview instead of reading the article, it’s way different. He is right that, on the face of it, the way MFE works is not that different from his original ruby proxy, just with a lot more of refinement. We are closing the gap, and bringing more web a

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

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 ar

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

I think this predates the PhoneGap app. This believe this guy created the first Wikipedia IOS app. I wasn't around then either, I just remember hearing about it while we were making our own apps with PhoneGap. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > It sounds to me like this guy i

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Dan Garry 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! I'm pretty sure Hampton was ruby mobile web interface which IIRC rewrot

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

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 wrote: > Hmm. I wasn't around in 2008, but I have a really hard time believ

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

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 respon

[WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

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