Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-25 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: I doubt that team will be growing soon; it grew a lot recently, going from 3 to 7 devs in the space of a few months or so. When a team grows so rapidly it needs time to find its feet afterwards. Tomasz is the mastermind

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-15 Thread Pine W
Dan, Thanks so much for the responses. 10 PM on a Sunday!? Are you busting the overtime budget along with the workaholics in the CA team? Anyway, could you or Maryana say how many devs are and are planned for on mobile web? Also, are there product roadmaps for Android, iOS and Mobile Web that

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-15 Thread Dan Garry
On 15 February 2015 at 22:45, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 10 PM on a Sunday!? Are you busting the overtime budget along with the workaholics in the CA team? Hah, not quite. I've just learned that I have bursts of productivity late at night on Sundays, and learned to embrace it... much

[WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-05 Thread Pine W
Do site banners appear on mobile apps and mobile web? I can't recall seeing one. With the growth in mobile, I hope that mobile apps and mobile web will support site banners for important notifications such as Wiki Loves Monuments. Thanks, Pine *This is an Encyclopedia*

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-05 Thread James Alexander
They can be (it's a non default but available checkbox on the CN interface) but they have to be very very carefully tested. Normal CentralNotice banners tend to end up being so large on the mobile system that they can be highly intrusive and it is difficult to do things like close the banner.

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-05 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:50 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org wrote: They can be (it's a non default but available checkbox on the CN interface) but they have to be very very carefully tested. Normal CentralNotice banners tend to end up being so large on the mobile system that they

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-05 Thread Pine W
Hi Dan, OK. By the way, I have a couple of questions about the mobile apps team: * What is the thinking behind having mobile apps instead of focusing resources 100% on mobile web? * I believe that Damon said something about needing more mobile devs shortly after he was first hired. Is that still